World Boko Haram Insurgents Launch Attacks in Northeast Nigeria.

BAUCHI, Nigeria — Sep 19, 2016, 7:00 PM ET Boko Haram insurgents launched three attacks within hours in northeast Nigeria, beheading a village chief and his son, ambushing a convoy under military escort, and gunning down eight Christians returning from a Sunday church service, witnesses and the army spokesman said Monday. On Monday, the Musllim extremist insurgents shot and killed six civilians and wounded three soldiers traveling in a convoy, army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman said. It happened on the highway about 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Maiduguri, the biggest city in the northeast and birthplace of Boko Haram. Extremists came to the village of Tallari before dawn Monday, beheaded ..