{"id":17546,"date":"2019-11-03T16:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=17546"},"modified":"2019-11-03T16:08:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T16:08:59","slug":"what-air-force-did-to-islamic-state-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-air-force-did-to-islamic-state-on-saturday","title":{"rendered":"What Air Force did to Islamic State on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) Terrorists\u2019 hideout in the Northern part of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borno_State\">Borno<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NAF said it also neutralised some of the ISWAP fighters at Arrinna Ciki on the fringes of the Lake Chad in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He said the operation was conducted through the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was accomplished through air strikes conducted on Nov. 1 and 2 sequel to intelligence reports indicating that the terrorists were using the settlement as a staging area to launch attacks against our forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe air strike on Nov. 1 was initiated when a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform, on confirmatory reconnaissance mission, spotted some ISWAP vehicles under some trees in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, the ATF scrambled its fighter jets to attack the location, recording successful strikes to immobilise the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilarly, a follow-up attack was executed on Nov. 2 after significant activity was observed in another part of the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis occasioned the detailing of attack aircraft to engage the identified areas resulting in the destruction of some terrorists\u2019 structures as well as the neutralisation of some of their fighters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Daramola said the NAF, operating in concert with surface forces, would sustain its efforts to completely destroy all remnants of the terrorists in the North East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) Terrorists\u2019 hideout in the Northern part of Borno. The NAF said it also neutralised some of the ISWAP fighters at Arrinna Ciki on the fringes of the Lake Chad in the same area. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":17547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[347,718,898],"class_list":["post-17546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abuja","tag-iswap","tag-naf"],"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>What Air Force did to Islamic State on Saturday - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) Terrorists\u2019 hideout in the Northern part of Borno.\" \/>\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\/all-news\/what-air-force-did-to-islamic-state-on-saturday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Air Force did to Islamic State on Saturday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) Terrorists\u2019 hideout in the Northern part of Borno.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-air-force-did-to-islamic-state-on-saturday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-03T16:08:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/NAF.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"721\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/what-air-force-did-to-islamic-state-on-saturday#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-air-force-did-to-islamic-state-on-saturday\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"What Air Force did to Islamic State on Saturday\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-03T16:08:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-air-force-did-to-islamic-state-on-saturday\"},\"wordCount\":253,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-air-force-did-to-islamic-state-on-saturday#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/NAF.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abuja\",\"ISWAP\",\"NAF\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-air-force-did-to-islamic-state-on-saturday#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-air-force-did-to-islamic-state-on-saturday\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-air-force-did-to-islamic-state-on-saturday\",\"name\":\"What Air Force did to Islamic State on Saturday - 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