Al Jazeera is demanding the release of staff detained by authorities as Mubasher Misr channel shutdown by army.

Militari, presi di mira 'tutti i campi' dei ribelli

Air raids target a militant training camp in north-east Nigeria as a military plane is hit by anti-aircraft fire, officials say.

Nigeria's army begins operations against militant Islamists after states of emergency were declared in three north-eastern states.

Nigerian troops say they have killed 14 suspected members of the Islamist group Boko Haram, in a raid on a building in the northern city of Kano.

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Police in Nigeria rescue 17 pregnant teenage girls and 11 babies from a house and say they are looking for a woman they suspect was planning to sell the babies.

Integralisti attaccano citta' nel nord-est, liberano detenuti

Fifty-five people have been killed in a raid by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state, the military says.

Satellite images reveal that 2,275 homes were burned in a military raid to find militant Islamists in northern Nigeria last month, a rights group says.