Third of Chibok girls ‘unwilling to leave Boko Haram’
Nigeria’s government is negotiating the release of another 83 of the Chibok schoolgirls taken in a mass abduction two-and-a-half years ago, but more than 100 others appear unwilling to leave their Boko Haram captors, a community leader said on Tuesday. The unwilling girls may have been radicalised by Boko Haram or are ashamed to return […]
Purported leader of Boko Haram resurfaces in new video
A man who claimed to be leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram has appeared in a video posted on social media, rejecting statements by the country’s military that he had been seriously wounded in an air strike. “You have been spreading in the social media that you injured or killed me,” the man purporting to be […]
Rhode Island Man Guilty ove ISIS Plot to Behead Blogger
A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of conspiring to behead a conservative blogger and recruit others to carry out attacks on American soil in the name of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). Nicholas Rovinski, 25, admitted that he had plotted with two men, David Wright and Wright’s uncle Usaamah Rahim, […]
The Awakening: What Do These Groups Have in Common?
In this short video, Dr. John Andrew Morrow explains: Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, as-Shabab, Boko Haram, an-Nusri, and ISIS – what do these groups have in common? They are all Salafis, they are all Wahabis, they are all Takfiris.
The Awakening: The Antidote to Extremism
In this short video, Dr. John Andrew Morrow explains some aspects of The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad as an antidote to extremism. The Muslim world is currently experiencing unprecedented persecution at the hands of fringe extremist ideologically-driven groups whether it is Boko Haram in the Nigeria, as-Shabab in Somalia, Al-Qaeda in North Africa and […]
The world is apparently awash in terror ‘masterminds’
If you are inclined to believe much of the corporate media, the world is apparently teeming with terrorist “masterminds” – dead or alive. I was reminded of this media concoction while digesting a spate of hyperbolic stories about the still-disputed killing of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group’s chief spokesman and […]
WFP: 4.5 million people hungry due to Boko Haram violence in Nigeria
Cape Town (dpa) – The number of Nigerians in need of food aid due to the persistent violence of Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has almost doubled to 4.5 million in just five months, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned Tuesday. The figure could rise by a further million as early as next month in […]
US Secretary of State visits Nigeria over Boko Haram
August 19, 2016. John Kerry The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, is expected in Nigeria on Aug. 23 to discuss US cooperation with Nigeria over Boko Haram, economy and human rights issues. A statement issued by the Information Office of the Embassy of the US on Friday in Abuja, said Kerry would hold meetings […]
Soldiers kill 27 Boko Haram terrorists in Cameroon
Yaounde (dpa) – Soldiers killed 27 members of Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram and arrested ten others in northern Cameroon, the commander of a regional army force said Thursday. A Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) – set up by Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Benin and Cameroon to fight Boko Haram across borders – ambushed a group […]
Boko Haram Video: Army declares journalist, two others wanted
Ahmed Salkida, a Nigerian journalist prominent for his access to the extremist Boko Haram sect has been declared wanted by the Nigerian Army. The Army in a post on its Twitter page on Sunday did not immediately give reasons for the announcement. Also declared wanted were Ahmed Bolori and Aisha Wakil. Ms. Wakil, a lawyer, […]