Title: Boko Haram - Wikipedia
Headings: Boko Haram
Boko Haram
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Contents
Etymology
Causes, ideology, takfir
Causes
Ideology
Takfir
History
Background
Founding
Allegiance to ISIS
Post-2015 West African offensive
Campaign of violence
2009
Further information: 2009 Boko Haram uprising
2010
Bauchi prison break
Jos and Maiduguri attacks
December Abuja bombing
2011
Presidential inauguration
2012
State of emergency
2013
2014
January Maiduguri bombing
February boarding school attack
Chibok kidnapping
July Maiduguri bombing
Northern Cameroon
Expansion of occupied territory
Attacks in Cameroon
2015
Baga massacre
West African offensive
February Potiskum and Kano bombings
Attrition of Catholic diocese of Maiduguri
N'Djamena suicide bombings
July mosques massacres
5 July attacks
Claims of defeat
Borno
Federal Capital Territory/Nasarawa
Adamawa
Yobe
Kano
Cameroon
Chad
Niger
2016
Bodo bombings
Dalori attack
Weakening and split
2017
Rise in child suicide bombing
Maidiguri bombings
2018
Dapchi kidnapping
Maiduguri attack
Operation Lafiya Dole
Attacks in north-east Nigeria
2019
Attack near Nigerian army chief of staff’s family Home
Attack on Chadian security forces
Konduga bombings
Nganzai funeral attack
Attack on Nigerian military base
Attack on Burkina Faso military base
2020
Gamboru bombing
Auno attack
Boma attack
Goneri ambush
Amchide bombing
Gajigana attack
Gubio massacre
Monguno and Nganzai massacres
Nguetchewe attack
Koshebe massacre
Kankara kidnapping
Christmas Eve attack in Pemi
Wulgo forest kidnapping
2021
Maiduguri attacks
Organization
Leader
Financing
Kidnap for ransom
Extortion
Ties to other militant groups
Response by Nigerian authorities
International responses
Dates of designation as a terrorist organization
United States responses
African Coalition force
French and British assistance
Chinese assistance
Colombian assistance
United Nations response
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: When the group was first formed, their main goal was to "purify" Islam in northern Nigeria, believing jihad should be delayed until the group was strong enough to overthrow the Nigerian government. Since March 2015, the group has been aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The group has been known for its brutality, and since the insurgency started in 2009, Boko Haram has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced 2.3 million from their homes, and was at one time the world's deadliest terror group according to the Global Terrorism Index. Boko Haram has contributed to regional food crises and famines. After its founding in 2002, Boko Haram's increasing radicalisation led to the suppression operation by the Nigerian military and the killing of its leader Mohammed Yusuf in July 2009. Its unexpected resurgence, following a mass prison break in September 2010 in Bauchi, was accompanied by increasingly sophisticated attacks, initially against soft targets, but progressing in 2011 to include suicide bombings of police buildings and the United Nations office in Abuja. The government's establishment of a state of emergency at the beginning of 2012, extended in the following year to cover the entire northeast of Nigeria, led to an increase in both security force abuses and militant attacks. Of the 2.3 million people displaced by the conflict since May 2013, at least 250,000 have left Nigeria and fled into Cameroon, Chad or Niger. Boko Haram killed over 6,600 people in 2014. The group has carried out mass abductions including the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in April 2014.