MALVEAUX: It's a tragic milestone in Syria. The U.N. now says the death toll from fighting there has now jumped past 60,000. A Syrian opposition group says at least 151 of those deaths happened today. About half were killed during a government air strike on a fuel station in a suburb of Damascus. Now, in northern Syria, rebel fighters stepped up their offensive to gain control of a key military airbase. Islamist militants have killed 34 Nigerians since Christmas. Most of them were killed attending church services. Such attacks have been escalating across the northern section of the country. Well, now, Nigeria's military is fighting back at the group known as Boko Haram. David McKenzie is following the developments from South Africa and, David, first of all, tell us about this organization. What do they do and why are they killing Christians?</s>DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Suzanne, Boko Haram, what they do right now is this reign of terror that's spreading across northern Nigeria, the largely Muslim section of Africa's most populace nation. In the last few days, since Friday, in fact, Suzanne as you described, more than 50 people killed, the majority of them Christians, most of them attending church services in the wake of a Christmas Day massacre in northern Nigeria where militants from Boko Haram stormed two churches, killing people with guns, slitting some of their throats and burning down some of those churches, according to the Nigerian government.
Islamist Militants Targeting Christians in South Africa