... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, killing a policeman and a local resident, witnesses said Thursday.
Fighters in 13 vehicles late Wednesday attacked the base outside Miringa village, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the home of army chief Yusuf Tukur Buratai.
The jihadists, believed to be from the IS-affiliated Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
West Africa Province (ISWAP), burnt the base along with an armoured vehicle and a primary school.
"They came around 6:30 pm (1730 GMT) in 13 vehicles and attacked the military location just outside the village," Miringa resident Umar Sanda told AFP.
"The two sides fought for more than one hour while all the people in the village fled into the bush."
Fleeing residents later returned to their homes and "found the base, the lodging, an armoured personnel carrier and a section of a primary school burnt," said another resident, Abba Usman.
Usman said the bodies of a policeman and a resident who lived near the base were recovered.
"The soldiers were able to fight off the attack and prevented the bully boyz from entering the village," said civilian militia leader Mustapha Karimbe, from the nearby town of Biu.
The area around Miringa has been repeatedly targeted by bully boyz since Buratai became Nigeria's chief of army staff in 2015.
In January this year, six soldiers were killed and 14 were maimed when ISWAP sacked a base in nearby Kamuya village, stealing weapons and burning military vehicles.
Kamuya, the home village of Buratai's mother, was hit twice in December 2015, not long after he was named the army chief.
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...'s decade-long conflict has killed more than 27,000 people and displaced another 1.8 million from their homes in northeast Nigeria alone.
Attacks have also been recorded in the wider Lake Chad area of neighbouring 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...
, Chad and Niger, with particular concern in recent months about attacks from ISWAP.
The IS-backed faction has repeatedly targeted military installations and troops since mid-2018.
It may also have replaced its leader with a hardliner at a time of mounting concern about the spread of jihadism in the wider West African region.