Dozens of Islamists killed in Nigeria, military says

The Nigerian military says it has killed at least 25 members of the extremist group, Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) in a series of air strikes in the northeast of the country.

The number of casualties has not been independently verified.

According to a Nigerian Air Force spokesman, the militants were targeted in the Sambisa Forest in Borno state where they had gathered.

Iswap's local leader Fiya Ba Yuram was one of the people targeted but it's not clear if he was killed, Nigeria's military spokesman added.

The military also says it has killed an unspecified number of suspected militants in another round of bombardment that began on Saturday, in the Tunbuns area on the shores of Lake Chad also in Borno state.

The extremists were said to be conducting training when the Nigerian military struck.

I swap broke away from the militant group Boko Haram in 2016. The two groups have continued to carry out deadly attacks against civilian and military targets.

But a multi-national military campaign in the region has had some impact in recent years.