A local government chief reportedly said that gunmen attacked villages in the Mafa area of Borno State between Thursday and Saturday.
The announcement came just hours after Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi alleged that “foreign hands” were behind the attacks.
The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership is central to President Barack Obama's policy of expanding U.S. presence in Asia.
A labor group is set to sue Walker administration officials after they relied on a restaurant industry study to block a minimum-wage increase.
Lance Cpl. Sean Neal is the first U.S. serviceman to die in an ISIS mission. He was 19.
Zehaf-Bibeau made a video that reportedly alludes to Canadian foreign policy as motivation for his attack.
Rousseff ally Ideli Salvatti says the government will seek "national reconciliation."
George P. Bush says family would back a presidential run by his father.
British hostage John Cantlie said in a propaganda video hostages who tried to escape from ISIS were waterboarded.
Taiwan has four aging submarines including two that date back to World War II although its military is otherwise considered generally modern.
The large number of parties in Sunday's election, from conservative Islamist Salafist movements to Socialists, means a coalition is the probable outcome.
The struggle is part of a wider conflict in the north African state where former rebels use their guns to fight for power and a share of the country's oil revenues.
Election results are not expected to be finalized for 10 days.
The Houthis, with Yemeni army backing, earlier battled their way to al-Manasseh, a small town regarded as the main Ansar al-Sharia stronghold in the area.
Ukraine goes to the polls today to vote for a new government.
Quarantined Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox says she has hired a lawyer to challenge her mandatory isolation.
After 13 years of war, the U.K. handed over Camp Bastion in Helmand and the U.S. handed over the adjacent Camp Leatherneck to Afghan forces.
The Iraqi advances came after the news that Kurdish forces had recaptured the town of Zumar.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie offered cautious optimism about Republican gubernatorial candidates who will face voters next week.
The European Central Bank said the banks’ capital holes could be filled by their raising €10 billion ($12.67 billion).
Samantha Power's trip comes as three U.S. states begin mandating quarantines for health workers returning from the Ebola-stricken region.
Six weeks of summaries reviewed by NBC News paint a grim picture of the situation in the three Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa.
The vote is seen as likely to install a pro-Western parliament and strengthen the president's hand in dealing with separatist rebels.
The vote was canceled just hours before it was to have begun. Protest leaders said they had not consulted sufficiently with the grassroots.
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations is visiting West Africa, as more stringent quarantine regulations take hold in some states.
The suspect identified himself as Marcelo Marquez, but his fingerprints matched those of a twice-deported convicted drug dealer.
One girl was killed and four other students were severely wounded when Jaylen Fryberg opened fire in his school Friday.
A New York Times report reveals the bleak and terrifying existence of captives in the custody of the Islamic State group.
Tibet's spiritual leader visited the Birmingham, Alabama Church where Martin Luther King launched rallies for African American freedom.
Two of Shinzo Abe's ministers resigned on one day last week, amid allegations of financial and electoral impropriety.