| Tchoukoutalia attack | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of Boko Haram insurgency | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Chad |  Boko Haram | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 26 killed 14 injured | Unknown | ||||||
On August 5, 2021, jihadists fromBoko Haram killed twenty-six Chadian soldiers near the village ofTchoukoutalia on the shore ofLake Chad.
In 2016, Boko Haram founder and commanderAbubakar Shekau pledged allegiance to theIslamic State and renamed the groupIslamic State – West Africa Province (ISWAP), although the central Islamic State command installedAbu Musab al-Barnawi as the leader of ISWAP. This started a schism that culminated in theBattle of Sambisa Forest in May 2021, where Shekau killed himself and ISWAP effectively became the dominant jihadist group in theLake Chad region around Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad.[1]
The attack took place on the night between August 4 and 5, 2021.[2] At the time of the attack, the Chadian troops were resting after having just finished a patrol.[3] Little is known about the attack itself, and Chadian state media announced that jihadists fromBoko Haram attacked their positions on the island village of Tchoukou Telia, killing 26 soldiers and injuring 14 others.[4][5] Chadian authorities added that the government outpost in the area successfully defended the attack, and counter-offensive operations began the next day in the area.[6]