2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2025 On 25 April 2021, a large group of ISWAP insurgents killed 33 soldiers in Mainok, a town 36 miles (58 kilometres) west of Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria.

[3][4][5] The attackers fled to their camp around the Lawan Mainari axis, as the air force carried out airstrikes against them.

[2][6] When the ISWAP terrorists were confronted with military planes heading towards them to attack them, they set fire to the police station in Mainok in a rage and then fled to the primary school there.

[7] When soldiers arrived from Damaturu in response, ISWAP ambushed the reinforcements, killing three, injuring nine, and stealing a MRAP.

[8][6] The attack was followed by prolonged and unrelenting fighting in the towns of Geidam, Kumuya and Buni Gari in Yobe province.