JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Boko Haram had attacked Baga before. But this time, insurgents armed with assault rifles and grenade launchers beat back the military and burned the town to the ground.

JOHANNESBURG -- Satellite images show widespread destruction in two Nigerian towns that were recently attacked by Islamic extremists, an international human rights group said Wednesday. Amnesty ...

City St George's, University of London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The recent fall of the town of Baga, north-eastern Nigeria, to Boko Haram is one of the militant ...

Nigerian forces backed by air strikes seized the northeastern border town of Baga from Islamist group Boko Haram yesterday, the military said, a significant victory in an offensive against an ...

Satellite images reveal that 2,275 homes were destroyed during a military raid to hunt down militant Islamists in the northern Nigerian town of Baga last month, a rights group has said. Human Rights ...