8 results for "JON GAMBRELL"
Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in city
Friday, May 17, 2013 at 12:43 PMNigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign in the region, with aut...
Warplanes, troops in NE Nigeria, mobile phones cut
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 11:07 AMMobile phone service was cut off Thursday in areas of northeast Nigeria as jet fighters streaked through the sky and more soldiers were deployed to fight Islamic extremists waging a brutal insurgency.
Nigeria deploys army to northeast to fight rebels
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 10:42 AMNigeria rumbled to a war footing Wednesday as soldiers and equipment moved into its northeastern states as part of an emergency military campaign against Islamic extremists waging a bloody insurgency.
Nigeria extremists say they kidnap women, children
Monday, May 13, 2013 at 10:12 AMThe leader of an Islamic extremist group in Nigeria says his group has started kidnapping women and children as part of its bloody guerrilla campaign against the country's government, according to a video released Monday.
Nigeria judge: Iranian, colleague smuggled weapons
Monday, May 13, 2013 at 8:17 AMAn Iranian and his Nigerian accomplice were sentenced to five years in prison Monday over a plot they orchestrated to smuggle a shipment of military-grade weapons including mortar rounds into West Africa.
Newspaper strike hits flamboyant Nigeria publisher
Friday, May 10, 2013 at 7:39 AMKnown for bringing in celebrities and smiling in photographs next to former Western leaders, a flamboyant Nigerian newspaper publisher now faces a challenge from his most vocal critics - his own employees.
Death toll in Nigeria police attack rises to 30
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 2:49 PMHeavily armed and under orders to break up an ethnic militia, a combined force of Nigerian police officers and agents of the country's domestic spy agency instead found themselves the target of a brutal attack that left at least 30 of them d...
Weapons of war spill blood in Nigeria's insurgency
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 6:26 AMAt first, the Islamic extremists in Nigeria's dusty northeast rode on the backs of motorcycles, firing on government officials and other perceived enemies with worn Kalashnikov assault rifles hidden beneath their flowing robes. Now, they com...
