All Stories: Abubakar Shekau

Shekau was seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to evade the IS militants who surrounded him following a series of battles, the sources said.

KANO, NIGERIA: At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in a dual suicide bomb attack at a busy morning market...

KANO, NIGERIA: The embattled leader of jihadist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, resurfaced in a video posted online Sunday, rejecting assertions by the Nigerian army that he had been seriously wounded.

ABUJA:  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Sunday that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is "wounded", in his first comments on military claims that the jihadi leader was injured in an attack.

KANO: A new Boko Haram video obtained by AFP on Sunday shows militants on an armoured vehicle parading down a road in an unidentified town they apparently control and the group's leader Abubakar Shekau preaching to locals.