BREAKING: Borno Under attack as ISWAP Takeover military base
Terrorist Group Known
as Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) are currently engaging Nigeria troops at a military base in
Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria.
News Info: Report: that the ISWAP fighters were sighted in a long
convoy of about 16 gun trucks along Ngude axis towards Askira, on Saturday
morning.
It is understood that
troops are battling them. But the residents have fled to the bush.
However a source said immediately the attackers
stormed Askira, they headed to the military base. Causalities could not be
ascertained as of the time of publishing this report.
ISWAP is a militant
group and administrative division of the Islamic State (IS), a Salafi jihadist
militant group and unrecognised proto-state. It is primarily active in the Chad
Basin, and fights an extensive insurgency against the states of Nigeria,
Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. It is an offshoot of Boko Haram with which it has a
violent rivalry; Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau killed himself in battle
with ISWAP in 2021. ISWAP is the umbrella organization for all IS factions in
West Africa including the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (IS-GS), although
the actual ties between ISWAP and IS-GS are limited.
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