Free Nigerian Students Recount Mass Kidnapping
Survivors of the St. Mary’s Catholic School abduction in Nigeria recall their harrowing ordeal and release.
Survivors of the St. Mary’s Catholic School abduction in Nigeria recall their harrowing ordeal and release.
There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple explanation.
Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country.
The kidnapping echoed the abduction of the Chibok girls 11 years ago and came as U.S. officials pressed the country to address violence against Christians.
A military official accused the Pakistani Taliban of staging the attack, which took place near a courthouse in Islamabad.
Officials have accused the United States of foreign interference and called on Washington to support the country’s democracy instead of fomenting division.
The president said he would halt all aid and go in “guns-a-blazing” to target militants.
Accusing Nigeria of not doing enough to protect Christians from violence, President Trump said he had ordered the Pentagon to prepare for action.
The two committed to stop attacking each other after the worst outbreak of hostilities in years. But the underlying causes remain, analysts warn.
The blast outside the local headquarters of a Pakistani paramilitary force in the city of Quetta could be heard miles away.