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The Boko Haram fighters were led by Bakura Doro. The battles at Allura Kurnawa and Kangar lasted for 13 hours and left 30 militants on both sides dead. [5] The Boko Haram fighters led by Doro later fled to a hideout on the border of Niger. [5] The ISWAP fighters were forced to flee from the area.
Several Boko Haram "top fighters" outright defected. [15] According to an alleged insider account, up to 70% of Boko Haram's qaids (senior commanders) had secretly sided with ISWAP by the time of the operation. [16] One group of Boko Haram loyalists, counting "dozens" according to al-Naba, holed up at the well defendable Ghowbra camp. ISWAP ...
Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād [24] (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad'), [25] is a self-proclaimed jihadist terrorist organization based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. [13]
The Battle of Darak, also called the Darak massacre, occurred on June 9, 2019, when Boko Haram fighters loyal to Abubakar Shekau attacked a Cameroonian and MNJTF military base in Darak, Far North Region. The attack was the deadliest in Cameroonian history since the start of the Boko Haram insurgency.
Operation Boma's Wrath was a military operation launched by Chad against Boko Haram. [1] Operation was launched on March 31, 2020, one week after Boko Haram's attack on Chadian military base in which 92 Chadian soldiers were killed. [2] Aim of the operation was to destroy hidden jihadist bases and repulse their forces out of Chad. Operation ...
As Boko Haram withdrew from the village, a suicide bomber exploded and killed four people on the scene, excluding the bomber. Seven others were injured in the attack as well. [3] Two Boko Haram fighters were killed during the attack, including the suicide bomber and a fighter killed by BIR. [2]
The attack began between 3pm and 4pm on May 29, with the ISWAP fighters originating from the village of Bagara south of Diffa. [4] The jihadists' invasion was halted by Nigerien FDS located between Bagara and Diffa, sparking battles. [5] The Boko Haram fighters conducted the attack with fifteen to twenty vehicles.
Abubakar Mohammed Shekau (23 March 1973 – 19 May 2021) was a Nigerian militant who was the leader of Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, from 2009 to 2021.