Lake Chad airstrike targets ISWAP leadership, disrupts terrorists’ supply network – NAF

By Philip Nwosu
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has intensified pressure on the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) with a precision airstrike targeting the group’s hideout in the Lake Chad region, killing key figures in its security and leadership structures and destroying equipment used for its operations.
The strike, conducted under the Joint Task Force, Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), forms part of ongoing military efforts to weaken the insurgents’ operational networks and restrict their movements across Nigeria’s North-East.
In a statement on the operation, the NAF spokesman, Commodore Ejodame Ehimein, said preliminary post-strike assessments indicated that several prominent IS...