JABO: Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed on Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rushed outside his mud house with his wife to see the sky glowing a bright red.

President Donald Trump said the United States launched a “powerful and deadly” strike against forces of the Islamic State group in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country’s government of failing to rein in the targeting of Christians.

Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rushed

YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Chanting "Allah is great," suspected Islamic militants gunned down dozens of villagers and slit the throats of others in the latest attack in a northeast Nigerian area where the military has been bombing extremists out of forest ...

The US launched strikes in northwestern Nigeria overnight - in cooperation with Abuja - claiming hits on IS targets were in defence of Christians in the country. Data, however, doesn't suggest Christians are uniquely persecuted.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria-- Twin car bombs at a bustling city marketplace blasted buildings to rubble and tore apart bodies the same night an attack on a farming village razed every thatched-roof hut. At least 90 people have been killed, officials and survivors ...

In this image taken with a mobile phone, a muslim woman walk past a burnout car and a house following an attack by suspected Islamic extremists in Kawuri, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. At least 85 residents of Kawuri village in Nigeria’s ...

OKWAGBE, NigeriaOKWAGBE, Nigeria — As the heavily armed Nigerian soldiers slipped closer to a suspected militant camp in the country’s oil-rich southern delta, they were ready for a fight after suffering casualties only days earlier. They launched a ...

Nigerian villagers in Jabo experience panic and confusion after U.S. airstrikes targeting IS militants shake their homes and skies.