Girls abducted by Islamic extremists in Nigeria

The United States has deployed about 80 military personnel to Chad in its effort to help find and return more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militant group Boko Haram, President Barack Obama told Congress on Wednesday. "These personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area," Obama said in a letter to congressional leaders. The forces are to remain in Chad until they are no longer needed, Obama added. (Reuters) Find more news related pictures in our photo galleries and follow us on Tumblr.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Chiroma Maina (R) holds a picture of her abducted daughter Comfort Amos, next to her husband Jonah and her daughter Helen, at their home in Maiduguri May 21, 2014. Comfort Amos was abducted on April 14 by Boko Haram militants along with more than 200 of her classmates from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno state. (REUTERS/Joe Penney)

Nigerian teenager Deborah Peters, the sole survivor of a Boko Haram attack on her family in 2011, holds up a sign referring to the kidnapped Chibok secondary schoolgirls, while speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington May 21, 2014. Peters was on Capitol Hill to attend a hearing by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Boko Haram: The Growing Threat to Schoolgirls, Nigeria, and Beyond. Deborah says she knows at least one of the kidnapped girls.
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