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LAGOS: Nigeria and the United States said on Tuesday that joint airstrikes had killed 175 fighters of the militant Islamic State group in the country’s northeast, including the group’s global second-in-command.
The remote region has been gripped by an insurgency since 2009, first by Boko Haram, then its offshoot and rival, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
According to the United Nations, more than 40,000 people have been killed and two million others displaced.
US and Nigerian forces killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, an IS leader described as the “most active terrorist” in the world, at a remote village in the northeast last weekend.
