... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
near the border with 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...
killed five troops from a multinational coalition Friday, two military sources told AFP.
Fighters from 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) stormed the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) base housing Nigerian and Cameroonian troops in the town of Wulgo in a pre-dawn attack, engaging troops in a shootout, the two sources said.
''Four Nigerian soldiers and a Cameroonian soldier were killed in the fighting,'' a Nigerian military source said.
''Nine of the bully boyz were also killed,'' the officer said.
The forces of Evil forced the troops to abandon the base after overwhelming them, said a second officer, who gave the same toll.
The attack came two months after a similar raid on the same base killed 25 Cameroonian soldiers.