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2020-12-21 Africa Subsaharan
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Nigeria Jihadists Kill Five Soldiers, Kidnap 35 Civilians in Two Attacks
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[AnNahar] Five Nigerian soldiers were killed when 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-aligned jihadists ambushed a military convoy and more than 30 civilians were also kidnapped in another attack, military sources said on Sunday.
The military convoy was hit in northeast Borno state on Saturday, and turbans also attacked a transport convoy in the same region a day before, abducting 35 people and killing one woman.
Nigeria's 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...
and a splinter group, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), have killed 36,000 people and displaced around two million as part of a decade-long conflict.
Saturday's attack on the military convoy took place outside of Mafa, 44 kilometers (27 miles) north of the regional capital Maiduguri.
"The turbans fired an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) on the convoy which hit one of the vehicles with five soldiers in it," one security source said.
"All the five were killed."
The forces of Evil seized two vehicles in the attack, said a second source who gave the same toll.
ISWAP split from the mainstream Boko Haram six years ago and rose to become a dominant group.
The jihadist group focuses on military targets, raiding bases, ambushing troops and planting mines on the roads, but recently they have been attacking and abducting civilians.
At least 35 people were kidnapped late Friday by ISWAP turbans at a fake checkpoint in Garin Kuturu village outside Jakana, 25 kilometers from Maiduguri.
"The ISWAP turbans who were dressed in military uniform stopped the vehicles... Some of the passengers fled into the bush while 35 were taken hostage," a pro-government militia official said.
A woman was rubbed out and several others were maimed when the turbans opened fire on those fleeing into the bush, he said.
Jakana, which lies along the 120-kilometre highway linking Maiduguri and Damaturu, the capital of neighbouring Yobe state, is an ISWAP stronghold.
Abductions of civilians by the jihadists in the area have been on the rise, prompting increased military deployments which have failed to end the abductions. 
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