{"id":156009,"date":"2025-03-21T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T14:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:47:16","slug":"naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast","title":{"rendered":"NAF unleashes airstrike destroys terrorists in Chiralia, Grazah, Yuwe hills Norteast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, said its personnel has intensified its relentless air operations, striking deep into terrorist strongholds across the North-East and North-West regions.<\/p>\n<p>Group Captain Kabiru Ali, Deputy Director of Public Relations and Information, Headquarters, Nigerian Air Force, in a statement said in a series of decisive and precision-guided air interdiction missions between 17 and 19 March 2025, NAF aircraft obliterated fortified hideouts in Chiralia, Grazah, Yuwe, and Zango Hill, eliminating numerous fighters and crippling their operational networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn 17 March 2025, the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) launched a devastating airstrike on Chiralia, a notorious terrorist enclave within the Timbuktu Triangle.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the NAF also, launched a devastating air interdiction operation at Grazah, a well-fortified terrorist hideout in the treacherous Mandara Mountains, and at Yuwe, a notorious insurgent stronghold in Sambisa Forest along the volatile Damboa-Bitta highway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Grazah, intelligence reports exposed extremist leaders indoctrinating fighters, reinforcing the urgency of the strike. In a ferocious assault, NAF fighter jets unleashed a relentless barrage of precision strikes on key targets advancing purposeful lethality.\u201d It said<\/p>\n<p>It said in the North-West region, the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji, OPHD, executed a relentless aerial assault in Zango Hill, Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, in close coordination with ground forces. ISR missions uncovered armed bandits entrenched in the rugged high ground, triggering the swift deployment of NAF attack aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe precision strikes pounded enemy positions, while follow-up bombardments targeted regrouping fighters attempting to evade destruction,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, said its personnel has intensified its relentless air operations, striking deep into terrorist strongholds across the North-East and North-West regions. Group Captain Kabiru Ali, Deputy Director of Public Relations and Information, Headquarters, Nigerian Air Force, in a statement said in a series of decisive and precision-guided air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":156008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[16451,16452,898,254,16450],"class_list":["post-156009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-chiralia","tag-grazah","tag-naf","tag-nigeria","tag-yuwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NAF unleashes airstrike destroys terrorists in Chiralia, Grazah, Yuwe hills Norteast - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, said its personnel has intensified its relentless air operations, striking deep into terror ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NAF unleashes airstrike destroys terrorists in Chiralia, Grazah, Yuwe hills Norteast\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, said its personnel has intensified its relentless air operations, striking deep into terror ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-21T14:35:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T10:47:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742563146.513804.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NAF unleashes airstrike destroys terrorists in Chiralia, Grazah, Yuwe hills Norteast\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-21T14:35:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-04T10:47:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast\"},\"wordCount\":273,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742563146.513804.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Chiralia\",\"Grazah\",\"NAF\",\"Nigeria\",\"Yuwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/naf-unleashes-airstrike-destroys-terrorists-in-chiralia-grazah-yuwe-hills-norteast\",\"name\":\"NAF unleashes airstrike destroys terrorists in Chiralia, Grazah, Yuwe hills Norteast - 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