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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 ...
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 ...
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]
Nigerian courts convicted 125 Boko Haram Islamist militants and financiers of a series of terrorism-related offences in a mass trial this week, the attorney-general's office said. A Boko Haram ...
Two civilians were killed, three soldiers injured and 100 houses were set on fire when Boko Haram fighters raided a village in Far North, Cameroon. [186] 11 November – Two persons were killed today in an early morning bomb blast in the Umulari area of Maiduguri. [187] 12 November – 240 Boko Haram fighters surrendered in south-west Chad. [188]
Ukrainian forces have announced a withdrawal from the eastern town of Vuhledar after more than two years of fighting against an encroaching Russian army. A Ukrainian military force in the eastern ...