FILE PHOTO: Nigeria's Minister of Defence Mansur Dan Ali poses for a picture during an interview in his office in Abuja, Nigeria August 30, 2018. REUTERS/Paul Carsten/File Photo
ABUJA (Reuters) - Islamist militants have killed hundreds of soldiers in attacks in northeastern Nigeria in recent weeks, security and military sources say, forcing a turnaround in the course of an insurgency which the government has frequently claimed to have vanquished.
The fatigued, ill-equipped government troops have reached breaking point, they said.
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