Chad's army says Boko Haram insurgents killed 17 Chadian soldiers in a weekend attack on a military post that also left 96 of the assailants dead

Nearly seven years after Boko Haram snatched them from their beds in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok, more of the missing schoolgirls are said to be returning home.

Hundreds of schoolboys who were abducted by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria last week have been freed, officials said.

Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 65 people who had gathered for a funeral in northeastern Nigeria over the weekend, a local official said.

Boko Haram has abducted more than 1,000 children in northeast Nigeria since 2013, according to the United Nations' children's agency.

Suspected Boko Haram militants allegedly stormed the town of Dapchi in northeast Nigeria on the night of Feb. 19 and kidnapped 110 students.

The Nigerian government backtracked after initially claiming the girls had been rescued.

The U.N. report said Boko Haram regularly uses children suicide bombers.

It’s been three years since Boko Haram abducted 276 schoolgirls from the Nigerian town of Chibok.

The Red Cross and Swiss officials took part in the negotiations.

Esther Yakubu’s daughter was one of over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Nigerian terror group Boko Haram in the northern town of Chibok on April 14, 2014.

One of the missing Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria has been found, ABC News has confirmed.

Our goal was to get at two simple questions: What’s happened to the missing Chibok school girls, and where are we in the battle against their kidnappers.

The schoolgirls were kidnapped two years ago from a school in Chibok.