LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 more as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to Africa's top oil producer. Full story
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not harm civilians. Full story
MAIDUGURI/YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian forces attacked Islamist strongholds in the northeast on Thursday, security sources said as an offensive got under way to wrest back territory from increasingly well-armed Boko Haram insurgents. Full story
BAGA, Nigeria (Reuters) - After a crackdown pushed them out of Nigeria's northern cities, Islamist militant group Boko Haram have regrouped, rearmed and are staging a bold comeback that has already allowed them to seize control over parts of the northeast. Full story
ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian gunmen killed 46 police officers in an ambush in the central state of Nassarawa this week, police said on Thursday, but the governor there believed a lesser-known local cult was behind the killings and not Boko Haram Islamists. Full story
Nigerian security forces have been accused of extrajudicial killings and broad, often indiscriminate roundups of suspects in their war against the Islamist Boko Haram movement. Full story
REFILE ADDING SLUGA poster advertising for the search of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is pasted on a wall in Baga village on the outskirts of Maiduguri, in the north-eastern state of Borno May 13, 2013. After a crackdown pushed them out of Nigeria's northern cities, Islamist militant group Bo
ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATHBodies of prison officers killed by Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram are seen in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. May 7, 2013. Suspected members of Boko Haram armed with machineguns laid siege on the northeastern town of Bama on Tues
ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATHRecovered weapons, personal items and bodies of some members of the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram are seen in Bama, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. May 7, 2013. Suspected members of Boko Haram armed with machineguns laid siege on
Soldiers enter the gate of Bama Prison, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria May 7, 2013. Suspected members of Boko Haram armed with machineguns laid siege on the northeastern town of Bama on Tuesday, freeing over 100 prison inmates and leaving 55 people dead, the military said. REUTERS/Stringer (NIGERIA
People rush to the scene of Monday's explosions at a bus park in Sabon Gari in Kano March 19, 2013. Five explosions at the bus park in northern Nigeria's main city of Kano killed at least 25 people on Monday, a Reuters witness said, in an area where Islamist sect Boko Haram is waging an insurgency a
