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Hundreds of Boko Haram militants attack a military post in Diffa, Niger, killing 16 soldiers and wounding nine others. In the ensuing gun battle, around 50 Islamist insurgents were killed.
2021-08-25

Niger security forces kill 12 Boko Haram militants in Bosso.
2016-05-29

Boko Haram and al-Qaeda kill four security force personnel in two separate attacks in Niger.
2016-03-18

An overnight raid by suspected Boko Haram militants on Niger's southern border town of Abadam, kills two Nigerien Army soldiers and three civilians. And, separately, a suicide-bomb attack on Lake Chad killed three of the attackers but no one else. A military convoy was also ambushed by militants in northern Cameroon, although there were no reported deaths.
2015-12-23

Niger’s army killed at least 30 suspected Boko Haram fighters as it searched for militants in villages just over the border with Nigeria.
2015-07-17

At least five people are killed in a Boko Haram attack on a village in southwest Niger.
2015-05-7

Boko Haram captures Karamga island in Lake Chad from Niger, killing many soldiers.
2015-04-26

Refugees flee Nigeria's Borno State following the Boko Haram massacre in the town of Baga. 7,300 flee to neighbouring Chad while over 1,000 are trapped on the island of Kangala in Lake Chad. Nigeria's army vows to recapture the town, while Niger and Chad withdraw their forces from a transnational force tasked with combating militants.
2015-01-9

Boko Haram captures the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak, killing 50 and forcing more than 3,000 to flee across the border into Niger.
2014-11-24

Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Benin, and Chad join together to combat Boko Haram.
2014-05-17