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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 ...
28 January – Boko Haram fighters killed 40 people while on a rampage in Adamawa. [53] 29 January – The Nigerian military, in collaboration with Chadian soldiers, captured the border town of Michika from Boko Haram rebels. [54] 31 January – The African Union pledged to send up to 7,500 international soldiers to aid Nigeria's fight against ...
The Sambisa forest in northeastern Nigeria, Boko Haram's main base, fell under ISWAP control during the battle, and many Boko Haram fighters relocated to the Lake Chad island of Baroua. [1] ISWAP fighters blocked access to Baroua, sparking further clashes between the two groups in July and August 2021. [1]
Extremist fighters killed eight people including soldiers in multiple attacks in northern Cameroon on Tuesday, a regional official said. Fighters with Boko Haram killed three customs officers ...
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 Nigerian army says it has rescued one of the missing Chibok schoolgirls abducted by militant Islamic group Boko Haram a decade ago. ... 27, was forced to marry a Boko Haram fighter, spending ...
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 ...