Troops of the Nigerian Army have arrested a suspected member of the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, reportedly ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A team of Al-Jazeera journalists was released late Monday after being detained for three days in eastern Niger, where they were held in a prison cell, according to a statement ...

Two female suicide bombers attacked the Niger frontier town of Diffa on Wednesday, security sources said, shortly after Chad's army said it had killed 13 fighters from the Islamist militant group Boko ...

(Reuters) -At least 30 people were killed in an airstrike in western Niger, two sources told Reuters, the latest casualties in a part of the country hit hard by Islamist militant attacks and ...

Six gunmen on motorbikes with AK-47 assault rifles kidnapped an American man from his home on the edge of a rural village in southern Niger in the early hours of Tuesday, multiple sources said.

An airstrike in western Niger near the town of Injar has resulted in at least 30 fatalities. The affected area is known for militant activity linked to Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Conflicting reports ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) – Six aid group employees were abducted from the guesthouse in a central Niger town, officials and witnesses said Monday. Men in two Toyota pickup trucks pulled up to a guesthouse ...

Borno State governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has visited Diffa Region in Niger Republic to strengthen existing collaboration between the Nigerian and ...

Residents told PREMIUM TIMES that the attackers stormed the town on Tuesday evening, moving from house to house.

Suspected Boko Haram militants launched an attack on the prison in the southern Niger town of Diffa late on Saturday, military sources said, in an apparent bid to free fellow members of the Nigerian ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, condemns an attack by armed assailants on Toumour, a town in south-east Niger, that killed 28 people and injured hundreds more. UNHCR is gravely concerned for the safety ...

NIAMEY, Niger, June 7 (UNHCR) - Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in south-east Niger following a series of attacks in recent days by Boko Haram insurgents on the town of Bosso in the ...