The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has unleashed multiple airstrikes on Commanders of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), a splinter of Boko Haram, and their training camps in the Lake Chad axis at Tumbun Rego.
Newsbreak.ng learned that key ISWAP leaders including Ibn Usman, Hani Abdullahi, Abakar Shuwa, Abu Jibrillah, Abu Ali and several fighters were neutralised recently.
A mix of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) and Nigerien Air Force aircrafts attacked the adjoining locations that serve as havens of their fighters, followers and families. Ongoing airstrikes and ground troops operations have led to the death of scores of terrorists while many severely injured in Lake Chad.
Lake Chad is a vast body of water where the borders of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon meet. The western shores of the lake have been hit by fighters crossing from northeastern Nigeria, where Boko Haram launched an armed campaign in 2009.
The four countries bordering the lake moved in 2015 to set up a formation called the MNJTF, also including Benin, to fight Boko Haram.
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