Sources: BBC
At least 14 Nigerian Army soldiers and a local imam are killed and several others are injured in two seperate attacks by suspected Islamic State – West Africa Province militants on army bases in Gwoza, Borno State, Nigeria. 2026-03-3
At least 63 people are killed, including seven soldiers, and others are reported missing in attacks by Boko Haram jihadists in Darul Jamal, Borno State, Nigeria. 2025-09-5
More than 35 ISWAP fighters are killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force during an attempted ground assault on troops near the Cameroon–Nigeria border in Kumshe, Borno State, Nigeria. 2025-08-23
At least 102 people are killed during a mass shooting at a market and against homes in Tarmuwa, Yobe State, Nigeria, by over 50 Boko Haram militants. 2024-09-3
Fifteen security personnel are killed when Boko Haram ambush a convoy of vehicles in which government officials were driven in Borno State, Nigeria. 2020-09-25
ISWAP kills over 20 soldiers and 40 civilians in attacks in Monguno and Nganzai in Borno, Nigeria – four days after they killed 82 civilians in Gubio. 2020-06-13
Boko Haram kills 70 troops in an ambush in Borno, northeastern Nigeria. 2020-03-23
Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 14 civilians in the southeast Diffa Region of Niger near the Nigerian border. The Nigerien government recently approved a law prolonging a 15-day state of emergency for the Diffa region by three months in a bid to boost security. 2015-10-28
According to a civilian vigilante, 20 people are killed after Boko Haram militants open fire on cars outside a village in Nigeria's restive northeast Borno state. 2015-10-21
A Boko Haram attack last week on a northeastern Nigerian village, Yadin Kukuwa killed at least 151 people. News of the attack was slow to emerge because the militants destroyed telecom masts around the village. 2015-08-19