by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 5, 2017 | World
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has rejected claims he had been wounded in an airstrike in remote northeast Nigeria. In a 14-minute video, the shadowy Boko Haram chief insisted he was not injured and that none of his key lieutenants was harmed either....
by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Oct 18, 2016 | Features
Cairo- The Nigerian presidency has announced the release of 21 girls who were kidnapped by extremists of Boko Haram since 2014 in Chibok. This extremist group has pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in March 2014 and has called its members as “ISIS wing in...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 25, 2016 | World
The purport leader of Nigerian extremist militant group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau appeared in a video posted on social media on Sunday in which he rejected statements by the country’s military that he had been seriously wounded. The Nigerian military has said...
by Amir Taheri | Aug 29, 2014 | Opinion
Like most events in history, the current crisis in Iraq has had several unintended consequences which are likely to impact regional politics for some time to come. On the ideological front, the emergence of the so-called Islamic State and its “caliphate” has...
