Terrorism
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 12:29
Hundreds of Islamic militants in trucks and a stolen armored personnel carrier attacked an air force base and international airport on the outskirts of a Nigerian city before dawn Monday, officials and witnesses said, possibly leaving scores of people dead in one of the insurgent group’s most daring attacks.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 12:14
Nigerian authorities imposed a 24-hour curfew in the main northeastern city of Maiduguri on Monday after Islamist militants attacked an air force base and army sites overnight, the military said.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 12:08
The Nigerian military said on Monday evening that five of its aircraft were ‘incapacitated’ when suspected Boko Haram members attacked an Airforce base in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Soldiers, however, killed 24 of the insurgents in a gun-battle, the defence headquarters said.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 11:00
Authorities in Nigeria have imposed a 24-hour curfew in the main northeastern city of Maiduguri after suspected Islamic militants attacked an air force base and army barracks.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 09:13
Thirteen individuals, who confessed that the Nusra Front sent six booby-trapped cars to Lebanon, were indicted Tuesday in the foiled bomb attack against the Beirut southern suburb of Maamoura in October.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 06:48
The authorities in northeastern Nigeria imposed a 24-hour curfew around the region’s main city on Monday after Islamic militants staged an audacious attack apparently aimed at a government air base, news reports said, describing the assault as among the most dramatic in the insurgents’ campaign to create an Islamic state.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 10:26
Boko Haram insurgents have attacked a military airbase in north-eastern Nigeria, destroying two helicopters, the authorities say.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 10:22
The Nigerian Air Force Base in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has been attacked by suspected Islamists.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 10:20
In September 2013 a 19-year-old woman escaped from the clutches of Boko Haram. They had held her captive for three months in Borno state’s Gwoza Hills, an extension of the Mandara Mountains in north-east Nigeria that borders Cameroon’s far north. Boko Haram, which controls some villages there, abducted the woman because she is a Christian.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 10:18
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists, Monday morning, attacked the Composite Group Air force Base and other places in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.