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Twenty Boko Haram militants and three Nigerian Army soldiers are killed during a gunfight as the military has tried to recapture the Nigerian town of Maiduguri.
2021-10-16

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

Fighting in various remote villages in the Borno State of Nigeria kill at least one civilian and six Boko Haram militants. According to the Nigerian Army, they've rescued more than 5,000 hostages from the militants.
2016-06-26

One of the girls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram in Nigeria is found and reunited with her family.
2016-05-18

The Nigerian Army claims to have rescued more than 800 hostages from Boko Haram while performing a "clearance operation" in the Northeastern part of Nigeria with fighting killing 22 insurgents.
2016-03-25

Five members of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram and two Nigerian Army soldiers are killed in fighting in the city of Kano.
2013-11-9

Clashes between Nigerian soldiers and Boko Haram Islamists kill 18 people in northeast Nigeria.
2013-08-17

Two Boko Haram commanders Mohammad Bama and Abubakar Zakariya Yau are killed by the Nigerian army in a gun battle in the north-east Adamawa State.
2013-08-14

The Nigerian Army kills 14 suspected Boko Haram members in a raid on a building, with the death of one soldier and the capture of a potential suicide bomber in a car full of explosives in the northern city of Kano.
2013-03-31

The Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram attacks a prison in Kogi State freeing 119 inmates.
2012-02-16