Breaking: Ba’a Shuwa, leader of ISWAP, and many fighters killed in airstrikes

The head of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Nigeria, Ba’a Shuwa, has been killed by the military.

According to Zagazola Makama’s account on Friday, the Nigerian military carried out significant bombings in the northeast of Borno, eliminating Ba’a Shuwa and numerous combatants.

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Ba’a Shuwa led the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), which is associated with ISIS, and included the Nigerian Wylayat, Lake Chad, Kwalfarji, Timbuktu Farouq, and Sambisa Mantika.

Zagazola Makama, a security analyst and counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, was informed by intelligence sources that Ba’a Shuwa and many of his fighters were killed in the devastating airstrikes that occurred on January 2, 2023, at Kwatan Dilla in the Abadam Local Government Area of Borno State.

According to sources, the post-attack exploitation featured footage showing scores taking out enemy equipment and elements.

Shuws took over in 2021 upon Abubakar Shekau’s suicide. He was leading terrorists in numerous camps along the Timbuktu and Alagarno axis in the southern region of Borno, including Chiralia, Markas Kauwa, Abirma, Buk, Abulam, Dusula, Abbagajiri, and Gorgore.

Khaid Hanzala, Ba’a Idirisa, Rawana, Abou Ibrahim, Mallam Abubakar, Abou Aisha, and Abou Khalid, who was in charge of the most recent attack on the electricity towers along the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway, were a few of his top commanding officers.

Attacks, ambushes, and IED/mine incidents directed against Damboa highways, Damaturu-Maiduguri, Askira, Buratai, Buni Yadi, Buni Gari, Gaidam, and other areas of Borno and Yobe States are primarily the fault of Ba’a Shuwa and his terrorist groups.

Within the Timbuktu Triangle, the militants hibernated in heavily fortified hideouts beneath dense vegetation and strategically placed rocks to elude air strikes.

The Nigerian military has not officially confirmed the news as of the time this report was filed.

More information to come.