PHOTOS: See The Breathtaking Destructions Made By Boko Haram In The Northeast

Terrorist Group, Boko Haram, has operated largely in Nigeria’s North-East region, but has overtime made in-roads into states in the North-Central and North-West regions of Nigeria, including the Nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

The group has continued to cause havoc in these regions, mostly the North-East, with its activities that has killed many innocent people, made families homeless, kidnapping of young boys and girls, caused locals to flee their villages and even scare some people from going to religious centers.

Boko Haram who recently opened a twitter account, according to villagers in Borno state, kill males aged between 15 and 45, while girls that attained the age of puberty are forcefully taken away.

Although, the Nigerian military has reportedly deployed another set of sophisticated arms to fight Boko Haram in the North-East, the military has been overwhelmed in most of its confrontations with the militant group.

Recently, pictures of teenage boys alleged to be new recruits of Boko Haram surfaced online, even as the terrorist group last weekend, freed 200 kidnapped captives, who returned to their community in Yobe state.

Washingtonpost.com German photojournalist, Andy Spyra has spent over three years in remote villages in northern Nigeria, documenting the attacks in the region through his camera lens, mostly in Sokoto, Jos, Mahalla and several villages south of Maiduguri.

See the pictures below:

A woman walks in the burned down and completely destroyed Christian neighborhood of Jos, Nigeria.

Landscape in northern Nigeria, January 25, 2013

The police station in Madagali, close to the Boko Haram stromghold-city of Maiduguri, bombed out by Boko Haram on December 13, 2012. Madagli, Nigeria, January 26, 2013.

Chima Ohazurume, survivor of the attack on St.Therese church in Madalla, where Boko Haram struck a bomb blast on Christmas in 2011, killing 32 people, wounding dozens more. Madalia, Nigeria, January 25, 2013.

The inhabitants of Wumu-village in northeastern Nigeria gather under a tree close to the place where on August 12th, 2012, Boko Haram is believed to have killed eight people in an attack. Yola, Nigeria, January 26, 2013.

Father Peter shows the remains of the car of a suicide-bomber that struck the St. Finbarrs church in Jos on 11.03.2012, killing 11 and wounding dozens. Jos, Nigeria. January 24, 2013.

A policeman of the station in Madagali holds his gun in the foreground. The police station, close to the Boko Haram stronghold-city of Maiduguri, was bombed out by Boko Haram on 13th December 2012.

Landscape in northern Nigeria, between Yola and the city of Maiduguri, the stronghold of Boko Haram. Januayr 25, 2013.

Father Alex of the local Catholic church walks in the burned down and completely destroyed Christian neighborhood of Jos, Nigeria, January 24, 2013.

The sahelian landscape north of Yola, looking towards the border with Chad and Cameroon. This area is considered to be the stronghold of Boko Haram, February 14, 2014.

Many people have abandoned their villages because there is no longer any protection from the security forces and they remain vulnerable to future Boko Haram attacks. Yola, Nigeria, February 2, 2014.

In a related development, the Nigerian military opened fire on the convoy of Borno State governor Kashim Shettima near a military garrison recently.