Nigerian Soldiers Repel an Attack on a Base and Kill 80 Islamic Militants, Army Says 

Nigerian soldiers backed by air support repelled an attack Wednesday by suspected Islamic militants on a military base in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 80 of the assailants, the army said. 
  
The militants, suspected members of Boko Haram or the Islamic State West Africa Province, were supported by multiple armed drones when they attacked the base in Mallam Fatori in the state of Borno, near the border with Niger, army spokesperson Sani Uba said in a statement. 
  
The attack comes after three suspected suicide bombings Monday killed at least 23 people and wounded 108 others in Borno’s capital Maiduguri. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but suspicion quickly fell on the Boko Haram jihadi group, which in 2009 launched an insurgency in northeastern Nigeria to enforce their radical interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law. 
 
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