A joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon says it has killed more than 100 insurgents, including 10 commanders, in the past few weeks, as it intensifies a ground and air offensive in the Lake Chad region.https://t.co/H4fBDGvjMy
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A joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
said on Sunday it had killed more than 100 Death Eaters, including 10 commanders, in the past few weeks, as it intensifies a ground and air offensive in the Lake Chad region.
Boko Haram
...not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...fighters and its splinter Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
West Africa Province (ISWAP) group have for more than a decade battled the Nigerian army in a conflict that has sucked in neighboring states.
Multinational Joint Task Force front man Colonel Muhammad Dole said troops had ventured deep into enclaves controlled by hard boyz in the Lake Chad area and recovered several weapons, food and illicit drugs.
"Within the period of this operation, well over a hundred faceless myrmidons have been neutralized, including over 10 top commanders ... following intelligence-driven lethal air strikes in the Lake Chad islands by the combined air task-forces," Dole said.
Dole did not give the period covered by the operation or number of troops killed but said 18 soldiers were maimed by improvised bombs planted by retreating Death Eaters.
The insurgency is concentrated in the northeast of Nigeria and has left thousands dead while driving millions from their homes into camps for internally displaced persons.
Nigeria received a boost after the United States last week approved a nearly $1 billion weapons sale. US politicians had put a hold on the deal over concerns about possible human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of
freedomat the convenience of the state...
abuses by the Nigerian government.
Boko Haram has been on the back foot since the death of its leader, Abubakar Shekau
...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka...
, last year in May during a battle with rival ISWAP. Nigeria says thousands of Boko Haram fighters and their families have surrendered since last year.
The #Nigerian air force says it has killed more than 70 ISIL (#ISIS)-affiliated fighters in the north of the country, at the border with #Niger, in an air raid.https://t.co/JH4pjWX45y
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