
Nigeria Shocker: 48 killed in 2 days – Is Terror Body Boko Haram staging a comeback?
A shocking surge in deadly violence across northeastern Nigeria has left 48 people dead in just 48 hours, sparking fears of a Boko..
The Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP), officially Wilāyat Garb Ifrīqīyā, meaning 'Province of West Africa', is a militant group and administrative division of the Islamic State (IS), a Salafi jihadist militant group and unrecognised quasi-state. ISWAP is primarily active in the Chad Basin, and fights an extensive insurgency against the states of Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger. It is an offshoot of Boko Haram with which it has a violent rivalry. Until March 2022, ISWAP acted as an 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 were limited.
A shocking surge in deadly violence across northeastern Nigeria has left 48 people dead in just 48 hours, sparking fears of a Boko..