Counterinsurgency

Friday, November 20, 2015 - 06:49
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Thursday said it had degraded Boko Haram terrorists' logistics, vehicle workshop and a weapon storage facility after successful interdiction missions on their Sambisa forest hideout.
Friday, November 20, 2015 - 06:46
The terrorists also captured a T-72 tank as well as several artillery weapons from the unit.
Friday, November 20, 2015 - 06:22
U.S. Special Forces are assisting in rescue efforts amid an attack at a luxury hotel in Mali, CNN reported on Friday.
Friday, November 20, 2015 - 06:13
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says his government never awarded any contract in the range of $2 billion dollars.
Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 06:33
Nigerian troops were denied weapons to fight Boko Haram and thousands of lives were lost because of rampant fraud in the procurement process, President Muhammadu Buhari has alleged.
Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 06:12
While Boko Haram swept across the country, a former national security adviser awarded 'phantom contracts' to buy 12 helicopters, four fighter jets, bombs that were never supplied.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - 06:49
Nigeria has recorded more deaths from insurgency and violent crimes in the last four years than before, despite spending an unprecedented N1.488 trillion on armaments between 2011 and 2014, a PREMIUM TIMES analysis has shown.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - 06:38
Nigeria's leader has ordered the arrest of the former president's national security adviser for allegedly stealing billions of dollars meant to buy weapons to fight Boko Haram Islamic extremists rampaging across northeast Nigeria.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - 06:34
So how many U.S. military bases are there in Africa?
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 06:29
The four countries fighting the Boko Haram insurgency in West Africa's Lake Chad region should unite behind a broader strategy to ease the poverty and climate change that are spurring millions to migrate to Europe, a U.N. official said on Monday.

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