{"id":222785,"date":"2026-02-04T11:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-troops-destroy-iswap-detention-facilities-in-north-east-free-over-70-captives\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:52:35","slug":"nigeria-troops-destroy-iswap-detention-facilities-in-north-east-free-over-70-captives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-troops-destroy-iswap-detention-facilities-in-north-east-free-over-70-captives\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Troops Destroy ISWAP Detention Facilities in North-East, Free Over 70 Captives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>The operations which lasted two weeks, according to a statement by the joint task force spokesperson, Sani Uba, marked a &#8220;significant advance into areas long considered beyond the reach of security forces.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The Nigerian Army says the North-eastern troops of Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), a joint task force, have destroyed three detention facilities of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) deep inside Timbuktu Triangle, a broader part of Sambisa forest straddling <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bornostate.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Borno<\/a><\/strong> and Yobe states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602040185.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operations which lasted two weeks, according to a statement by the joint task force spokesperson, Sani Uba, marked a &#8220;significant advance into areas long considered beyond the reach of security forces.&#8221; The Nigerian Army says the North-eastern troops of Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), a joint task force, have destroyed three detention facilities of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,18303,15834,6978,9883,6544,33068,257,4687,393,12646,254,8515],"class_list":["post-222785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-captives","tag-destroy","tag-detention","tag-facilities","tag-free","tag-iswap","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-northeast","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troops"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}