Mohamed Salah has scored and Egypt has eliminated defending champion Ivory Coast to move into the Africa Cup of Nations ...

When former President Donald Trump announced Christmas night U.S. airstrikes on alleged Islamic State group targets in Nigeria, AP’s West Africa team ...

Niger’s military junta adopted a sweeping “general mobilization” decree on December 26. The new law grants authorities ...

Islamic scholars and clerics from Nigeria, the United States, the Middle East, and Europe have unanimously rejected attempts ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said Thursday night that he ordered a “powerful and deadly" U.S. strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West ...

President Donald Trump said there could be more strikes by the U.S. in Nigeria if Christians are killed in the African nation ...

Christians in Nigeria have the "opportunity to spare their blood by converting to Islam," the group wrote in a newsletter.

We must live, we must hope’, say returnees who were displaced for a decade from homes in Malam Fatori, Borno State.

The United States airstrike against Islamic State militants in Sokoto State has revamped Nigeria’s strategic response to terrorist activities in the North-West region and other parts of the country.

A small town set amid a smattering of baobab trees is grappling with the aftermath of a bombing ordered by President Trump.

Public holidays in Nigeria, one of Africa's most populous nations, decide when offices pause, schools shut, and travel plans ...

The Nigerian military is monitoring Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters believed to be fleeing ...