Sunday Alamba / AP Nigerian Boy Kidnapped by Islamic Terrorists Opens Up About Daring Escape Usama Aminu is one of the hundreds of students abducted by militants believed to be associated with the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. By The Associated Press December 17, 2020
Abdullatif Yusuf / AP Boko Haram Abducts Hundreds of Children Amid Growing Threat of Islamist Violence Boko Haram extremists kidnapped over 300 students from a school in northern Nigeria. By The Associated Press December 15, 2020
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images Trump Announces 'Massive Breakthrough' for Peace as Israel Reaches Deal with Another Arab Nation President Trump announced that Israel and Morocco have agreed to establish diplomatic relations. By The Associated Press December 10, 2020
Senior Airman Kristin Savage via AP President Trump Pulls American Troops Out of East African Nation President Trump ordered the withdrawal of the majority of American troops in Somalia. By The Associated Press December 4, 2020
Audu Marte / AFP via Getty Images Boko Haram Insurgents Kill Over 100 in 'Barbaric' Scorched-Earth Massacre Boko Haram insurgents killed 110 in an attack on a Nigerian farm village. By Kaylee Greenlee December 3, 2020
James O'Donoghue / Twitter Explosion That Rocked City Was So Powerful, Scientists Thought It Was a Meteor Impact 'Most of the destruction occurs on top and roof/ceilings of the buildings,' one report said. By C. Douglas Golden November 27, 2020
Mohamed Abdiwahab / AFP via Getty Images Trump Admin Cracks Down on Dangerous Islamic Extremist Group Terrorizing East Africa The State Department announced new sanctions against Somalia's al-Shabab extremist group. By The Associated Press November 17, 2020
Issouf Sanogo / AFP via Getty Images Jihadists Kill 14 in Ambush as Islamist Violence Explodes Across West African Nation Fourteen soldiers were killed in an Islamic extremist attack in Burkina Faso. By The Associated Press November 13, 2020
Christophe Petit Tesson / Pool via AP, File French Forces Take Out Islamist Commander Responsible for Training Jihadist Recruits French forces killed an Islamist commander and four others in Mali. By The Associated Press November 13, 2020
Marco Longari / AFP via Getty Images Islamic Jihadists Behead More Than 50 People After Turning Soccer Field Into 'Execution Ground' The beheadings are the latest in a series of attacks carried about by the militants in the Cabo Delgado province since 2017. By Erin Coates November 11, 2020