The jihadists, affiliated with 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....
in West Africa (ISWAP), attacked a team of soldiers and anti-jihadist faceless myrmidons who were heading on cycle of violences towards the town of Monguno, located 140 km from the capital Maiduguri of Borno State, two militias said.
"ISWAP bully boyz ambushed the patrol team and opened fire on them in Lingir village, leading to a shootout. There were so many of them that the team had to flee," it said. Musa Kaka, leader of an anti-jihadist militia in Monguno.
"Two soldiers and two anti-jihadist faceless myrmidons were killed in the fighting and several were maimed," he added.
The jihadist insurgency which has lasted for 14 years in Nigeria is one of the main security challenges facing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who came to power last May and who notably promised to put an end to this violence in the northeast.
Even if the intensity of jihadist abuses has gradually decreased in recent years, ISWAP, which seceded from 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...in 2016, still remains active in the Lake Chad region where it regularly festivities with its former group.
ISWAP regularly carries out attacks in rural areas on the Maiduguri-Monguno highway, killing and kidnapping motorists, as well as periodic deadly incursions into Monguno against soldiers and anti-jihadist militias.
In recent days, its fighters have ordered residents of villages along the highway between the towns of Gubio, Damasak, Layi, Jamu, and Kinsari to leave their homes, according to Musa Kaka.
The jihadist insurgency in Nigeria has left 40,000 dead and more than two million displaced.
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