Armed militants blew up a police headquarters and shot an officer in the Nigerian city of Kano on Monday as more blasts were reported in Maiduguri, a hotbed of Boko Haram Islamists. Coordinated attacks in Kano last month killed at least 185 people.
Anders Behring Breivik, who confessed to killing 77 people in planned bomb and shooting attacks in Norway last July, told an Oslo court on Monday his massacre had been a “preventive attack against state traitors” and demanded immediate release.
Four British men pleaded guilty Wednesday to a plot to bomb the London Stock exchange and other high-profile targets in December 2010. The defendants and five others were accused of planning a "Mumbai-style" atrocity.
An Oslo court on Monday found two men guilty of a terror plot to attack a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, while a third defendant was convicted of helping the two acquire explosives.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's challenge to the Boko Haram group to identify themselves and state their demands surprised many Nigerians. Boko Haram's identity and demands are no secret. But can talks bring the peace Nigerians seek?
The death toll from coordinated gun and bomb attacks in Nigeria's second largest city Kano has risen to at least 178, a hospital doctor said Sunday, as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the area.
Coordinated bomb attacks and gun battles have left at least 121 people dead in Nigeria's second city of Kano, a Red Cross source said Saturday. Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the violence.
The Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated bomb attacks targeting security forces in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano on Friday, which left at least seven people dead.
Police in the restive city of Kano in northern Nigeria say at least six people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks, some targeting police stations and local government buildings. The authorities have imposed a curfew across the city.
When Nigerian police admitted Wednesday that the top suspect in the deadly Christmas Day bombings had escaped police custody, it beggared belief across many sections of Nigerian society and got the rumour mills rolling.
