Tag: ISWAP

The United States has imposed Nigerian ISIS financing sanctions on a Lagos-based bureau de change operator and three companies accused of facilitating financial transactions for ISWAP. The move forms part of a wider international crackdown targeting individuals and entities linked to ISIS financing networks across Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Fresh AFRICOM-backed strikes hit ISIS targets in northeast Nigeria after the killing of ISIS deputy Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, as mass school abductions deepen the country’s security crisis.

A senior ISWAP bomb maker identified as Abu Umar was among six militants killed in a premature explosion at an IED assembly site in Marte, Borno State, in what analysts describe as a significant operational setback for ISIS-linked insurgents in northeastern Nigeria.

A major Lake Chad Boko Haram attack killed 24 Chadian soldiers on Barka Tolorom island before another ambush claimed two generals, raising fears of a renewed insurgent surge across the Lake Chad Basin.

Nigeria’s security crisis deepens as 29 people are killed in a brutal attack on a football gathering in Adamawa’s Guyaku village, while gunmen abduct children from an orphanage in Lokoja, exposing a dangerous convergence of insurgency and kidnapping networks.