Mohammed Umar Bago, Niger State governor, left, with Freed students of the St. Mary's Catholic School in the Papiri community ...

The United States launched “powerful and deadly” strikes against groups it claims are affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) in Nigeria, ...

Gunmen attack village in northern Nigeria, killing 30 and abducting several others. Latest in a cycle of deadly violence in the conflict-hit region.

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Morocco secured qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup by winning Group E of the CAF qualifying competition, finishing ...

Flowing for more than 4,000 kilometers through rainforest, savannah, and desert, the Niger River has long supported life ...

Jeffrey Owens is a Jeffersonville native, a 1995 graduate of Miami Trace High School and 2000 graduate of Ohio University. As ...

If Twitter was available in Sodom, trending hashtags would have included #EndTimes and #FireFromHeaven. Today is no different ...

Thursday’s strikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria signal an intensifying American fight against jihadist expansion across Africa.

FIRST ON FOX: U.S. troops trying to combat al Qaeda and ISIS jihadist fighters in Niger and some other West African countries in the terror-ridden Sahel region are reportedly "completely blind," ...

A US missionary working for an evangelical Christian organisation has been kidnapped in Niger’s capital Niamey, the US State Department has said, in the latest kidnapping of a foreign national in the ...