BREAKING: Army Destroys ISWAP Caliphate in Nigeria [PHOTOS]

BREAKING: Army Destroys ISWAP Caliphate in Nigeria [PHOTOS]

EKO HOT BLOG reports that troops of 401 Special Forces Brigade in collaboration with 19 Brigade Baga while on offensive clearance operations between Cross kauwa and Gudumbali in Borno State have neutralised terrorists and destroyed the purported Islamic State – West Africa Province (ISWAP) Caliphate.

The ‘achievement’ was recorded on Tuesday.

Additionally, in the early hours of Wednesday, troops of 25 Task Force Brigade Damboa, Borno State, destroyed and burnt identified BokoHaram/ISWAP Night Market at Gumsuri.

ISWAP is a splinter group of Boko Haram. It has been two decades since Mohammed Yusuf founded the group that became known as Boko Haram, and over a decade since its violent attacks reached the scale of an insurgency.

ISWAP terrorists align ideologically with IS, and has also adopted many of its technologies and tactics.

It is a Salafi jihadist militant group and unrecognised proto-state. ISWAP 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.

See some photos from the latest operations below:

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