What is the name of the Islamic militant group active in Nigeria?
Islamic terrorism sometimes wiping out entire villages in its area of operation. It also targeted foreigners living in Algeria, killing more than 100 expatriates in the country. In recent years it has been eclipsed by a splinter group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), now called Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb. Boko Haram is an Islamic extremist group based in northeastern Nigeria, also active in Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon. Al-Shabaab is a militant jihadist terrorist group based in East Africa. In 2012, it pledged allegiance to the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda. It is a participant in the Somali
Name changes due to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Name changes due to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, often abbreviated as "ISIL" and pronounced as such, is a militant Islamist terrorist group. It is also known as the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" or the "Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham", abbreviated as "ISIS" (and pronounced the same as the ancient Egyptian goddess, Isis), which has caused name changes to distinguish other entities from the group. Version 0.3 of Linux distribution elementary OS, originally to be called Isis, was renamed Freya. (Freya is a Norse goddess.) A