It announced that Boko Haram’s camp destroyed and many terrorists killed in an air strike in the northeast of Nigeria.

In the operation against the terrorist organization Boko Haram in the northeast of the West African country Nigeria. The camp of the organization destroyed, many terrorists killed.

Nigerian Ministry of Defense Spokesperson John Enenche told reporters. He stated that the army carried out an airstrike on Boko Haram members in the village of Sawa in Borno province.

Enenche noted that the camp of the organization destroyed and many terrorists killed in the attack.

Boko Haram, the terrorist organization that has existed in Nigeria since the early 2000s. More than 20,000 people have died in the mass violence it has carried out since 2009.

The organization has also carried out attacks in the country’s border neighbors Cameroon, Chad and Niger since 2015. At least 2,000 people died in their attacks in the Lake Chad Basin.

Abu Musab al Barnawi, former Boko Haram ringleader, was appointed as the organization’s new leader in 2016. It caused controversy and division within the organization between Ebubekir Shekau, which has been a leader since 2009 and Barnawi.