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...fighters killed six Chadian soldiers in the Lake Chad region, where deadly jihadist attacks against civilians and security forces are on the rise, the army said Tuesday.
Security experts say Boko Haram, which originated in Nigeria in 2009, has established bases on islets dotting Lake Chad, a vast swampy expanse in the border region straddled by Nigeria, Chad, Niger and 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...
The soldiers were killed while patrolling a group of islets on the Chad-Nigeria border, army front man General Azem Bermendoa Agouna told AFP.
Twelve other soldiers were maimed and the military killed around 10 "terrorists", he said.
The Chadian army launched an offensive against Boko Haram in April after some 100 soldiers died in an attack by the group on one of its bases.
President Idriss Deby then claimed to have pushed the jihadists out. But attacks have continued despite the military operation.
Fighters from a dissident branch, the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
West Africa Province (ISWAP) group, are also extending their grip and influence around Lake Chad.
At least 36,000 people have been killed and around three million displaced in the decade-long Islamist conflict which spread from northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
to Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
Those countries have formed a regional military coalition to fight the jihadists.