On September 21, 2004, in northern Nigeria, Islamic militants fighting to create a Taliban-style state launched their first attacks, assaulting two police stations in the North-East and killing six people. Boko Haram, referred to by themselves as al-Wilyat al-Islmiyya Gharb Afrqiyyah, (Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP), and Jamat Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l- (“Group of […]
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