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With Help From ISIS, a More Deadly Boko Haram Makes a Comeback

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The Nigerian terror organization’s ties to the “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria appear to include training and propaganda operations.

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LAGOS — The Nigerian terror group Boko Haram, after some much heralded reversals on the battlefield, has made a dangerous comeback, unleashing female suicide bombers, carrying out a series of deadly attacks, and seizing a highly strategic town.

Having fled the larger part of their stronghold in Sambisa forest, the sect’s...

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