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Idris said the strikes targeted areas used as “staging grounds by foreign" IS fighters who had sneaked into Nigeria from the ...

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Residents of Jabo, a village in the northwestern Nigerian state of Sokoto, told The Associated Press in interviews Friday ...

Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed on Thursday night when he heard a ...