21 Freed Chibok Girls Reunited With Families

A group of Nigerian parents was reunited Sunday with 21 schoolgirls kidnapped by militants more than two years ago. Nearly 300 girls were taken from their school in 2014 in Chibok in northeastern Borno state, where Boko Haram has waged a seven-year insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic state, killing thousands and displacing more than 2 million people. Last week, the rebels released 21 girls in the first negotiated release brokered by the International Red Cross and the Swiss...

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