Islamic state says Boko Haram has staged 100 attacks in 2 months

The Islamic State group has published an infographic saying its West Africa division has launched more than 100 attacks in the past two months, the Associated Press reports

SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that tracks jihadi websites says Boko Haram, which joined the Islamic State group in March, has killed and injured more than 1,000 people between October 14 and December 12.

Based in Nigeria, Boko Haram has expanded its attacks into Cameroon, Niger and Chad, countries contributing to a regional force to wipe out the extremists.

The IS graphic says its West African branch has staged 67 suicide attacks and fired more than 120 rockets.

SITE says the data for the infographic posted Saturday on Twitter and Telegram was apparently collected from media reports.

As part of its international expansion plan, which also attempts to obscure battlefield losses, ISIS seeks to appropriate the allegiance and territory of other jihadist militant groups to create regional provinces.

In March, Boko Haram, the West African jihadist group that controls territory equal in size to the state of Massachusetts, joined ISIS and rebranded itself as the “Islamic State of West Africa”. As the only major jihadi group in Africa to resist ISIS allegiance, al-Shabab poses a serious obstacle to ISIS’s vision of a transnational jihadi state.

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