Breaking: Massive airstrikes kill top ISIS leader, Ammar Bin-Umar in Borno

Massive airstrikes by troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has killed a top leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Ammar Bin-Umar, in Lake Chad.

It was reported that there was coordinated airstrikes using Tucano jet fighter by the Nigerian Airforce (NAF) alongside the MNJTF, Niger Air Task Force’s Mi35 and Mi171 helicopter Gunship on April 14, 2022 in Arinna, Marte Local Government (LGA) of Borno State.

Source said the late ISIS leader, Bin-Umar attempted to flee from the scene of attack, but was put out as a result of ceaseless onslaught.

The terrorist was reportedly among the top ISIS Mujahedeens dialogue committee deployed to the Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) caliphates in February 2022, to intervene following prolonged supremacy squabble among the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād/ISWAP.

Accordingly the MNJTF is embarking on clearance Operations in the strongholds in Abadam and Marte Local Government Areas.