US to Send $35 Million in Military Aid to Cameroon's BIR
The Trump administration is set to provide around $35 million in military aid to Cameroon's Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR), which is fighting ISWAP and Boko Haram in the country's north.

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The Trump administration is set to provide around $35 million in military aid to Cameroon's Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR), which is fighting ISWAP and Boko Haram in the country's north.
Islamic State West Africa Province militants overran a Nigerian Army camp in Mairari, Borno State, seizing or destroying armored vehicles, assault rifles, machine guns and RPG launchers.
Jihadists suspected to be ISWAP killed 15 troops and five militia members in Borno State, Nigeria.
Nigerian military precision air strikes killed more than 40 ISWAP fighters and destroyed vehicles in Borno State, while troops repelled a coordinated Boko Haram-ISWAP assault on Forward Operating Base Garaha in Adamawa State, killing six militants but also suffering casualties.
A Nigerian Army airstrike on 10 October in Badu Village, Borno State, killed more than 40 ISWAP terrorists, including a senior commander, and destroyed two vehicles and about 20 motorcycles.
Nigerian Army troops under Operation HADIN KAI repelled a coordinated ISWAP attack in Kukawa, Borno State, killing more than 25 militants and recovering six AK-47 rifles, though several Nigerian soldiers were also killed.