Two Nigerian soldiers were killed in clashes with Islamic State in West African Province fighters in Yobe State, the terror group claimed through its news agency AMAQ on Saturday.

The jihadist organisation said the attack on the soldiers took place in Boni Yadi on Friday. It said it also seized armoured vehicles.

The Nigerian army authorities are yet to confirm the attacks.

ISWAP has carried out a string of attacks in Nigeria in recent months contrary to the Nigerian government claims that its troops have degraded the insurgent group.

On Thursday the group claimed it killed 10 Nigeria soldiers in an attack in Borno State on Wednesday.

Citing security sources and residents, AFP reported that ISWAP fighters attacked Gajiram on both Wednesday and Thursday, killing three soldiers and a police officer.

The insurgents first attacked the town on Wednesday, forcing troops and police officers to withdraw, according to the residents.

They drove into the town around 4 p.m., “firing indiscriminately,” Gajiram resident Abdu Goni said.

“They burnt down the police station and took away four military vehicles and another one belonging to the police,” Goni said.

ISWAP fighters returned at 1 a.m. on Thursday morning in nine all-terrain trucks fitted with machine guns and engaged troops and police officers in a gun battle, AFP reported.

Goni said the militants “killed three soldiers and a policeman without harming any civilians” when they returned on Thursday, adding that another military pickup truck was seized in the second attack.

The jihadist group known as Boko Haram began its bloody insurgency in northeastern Nigeria in 2009, but it has since spread into neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a regional military response.

Boko Haram split into two factions in mid-2016. One, led by long-time leader Abubakar Shekau, is notorious for suicide bombings and indiscriminate killings of civilians.

Shekau pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in March 2015, but ISIS central only gives formal backing to the other faction, which it calls Islamic State West Africa Province.

The U.S. assesses that Boko Haram and ISWAP have been responsible for more than 35,000 deaths since 2011. More than two million people have been displaced, sparking a dire humanitarian crisis in the region.

https://m.guardian.ng/news/iswap-claims-killing-of-two-nigerian-soldiers/

Wahala dey o

And we have a President..

We have an IGP

We have COAS

We have CDS

We have CNS

We have CNSCDC

And then

We have an abnormal high rate of insecurity in the land....

Unprecedented

No be small thing!!!

Very soon there will be no soldiers left to fight the war hence, the government embarking on forceful recruitment of young men to complete the task. God forbid!

When I tell young people the opportunity to leave Nigeria is like a lottery, they will laugh and take it for a joke. A time will come that nations will shut their doors and close their windows on Nigeria.

While you still have the time and chance, leave. It's not a bad thing to log into Nairaland from Canada, Europe, or South east Asia.

Richdad

Waiting for Falz to comment before I comment

Oh lord save my country

Propaganda from the pit of ISWAP *Spits* you ISWAP thinks u can turn Nigeria to Libya ba .

notice me terrorists

I don't care

Ewo tun ni iswap bayii abi iru ilu wo ni olorun damisi bayi

We need a responsive Government that puts the safety and security of her citizens before party allegiance and political permutations. Alas this is Nigeria, where schemings for 2023 elections is the immediate priority of the elite. Rest on soldiers, you payed the supreme price for the ungrateful.

Technically And technologically defeated

We HaVe DeFeAtEd BoKo HaRaM �

Na dem, dem e no concern me

Low budget ISIS!
The government should procure weapons and rain fire on these scoundrels
Shitt is getting too old

in dj khaled's voice...another one

oti e su mi gan..

check my sign, support through ur order. God bless

Hmmm
Animal kingdom

Nigeria it is finished

Rest in peace to them.

nawa

Pls go to SOUTH AFRICA N FIGHT 4 A REAL COURSE. STOP KILLING NIGERIAN

Buharin is a failure!

Ohh just great we are trying to fight boko anoda one with wired name has come out what is this country turning into sef

Ah ah na...

Double terrorist groups in one cantri?

No no something is going on here. Am sure more will spring up because some key pipu in security and govt see this as a business venture. Hence will never allow it to be defeated. Kiss da truth

when will killing and bloodshed stop in Nigeria?