Boko Haram group kills 100 soldiers

Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has killed as many as 100 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on an army base in Borno State. ISWAP split from Boko Haram over ideology in August 2016

Attacks (Aug 2016-Nov 2018)
ISWAP   Boko Haram (JAS)

Roads controlled  by Boko Haram

NIGER
NIGERIA
Metele
Lake Chad
N’Djamena
Dapchi
BORNO STATE
Maiduguri
CHAD 
Chibok 
CAMEROON

500 miles 800km

Nov 19: Attack on army base at Metele village

Abubakar Shekau
Launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state – since then more than 20,000 people have been killed. Shekau continues to command militants under group’s previous name, Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS)

Abu Musab al-Barnawi
Al-Barnawi’s disagreement with Boko Haram was over Shekau’s punitive and indiscriminate violence against civilians.
ISWAP has conducted less frequent but larger attacks against Nigerian military

Source: Institute for Security Studies Pictures: Associated Press, New Mail © GRAPHIC NEWS