{"id":74982,"date":"2025-09-05T06:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74982"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:43:24","slug":"troops-kill-terrorists-arrest-85-in-august-dhq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/05\/troops-kill-terrorists-arrest-85-in-august-dhq\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops Kill Terrorists, Arrest 85 in August -DHQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), says troops of the Armed Forces killed several terrorists, arrested 85 suspects, and rescued 66 kidnapped victims in August.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Markus Kangye, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday while briefing journalists on military operations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the North East, Operation Hadin Kai troops eliminated Boko Haram\/ISWAP fighters, arrested 15 suspects, including collaborators, a gunrunner, and a drug dealer and rescued eight victims.<\/p>\n<p>In the North West, troops neutralised bandits across Zamfara, Sokoto, Kaduna, Kebbi, and Katsina, arrested 23 suspects, and freed 24 victims.<\/p>\n<p>Kangye added that Operation Whirl Stroke in Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba, Kogi, and the FCT arrested nine extremists and rescued 13 hostages, while Operation Enduring Peace in the North Central killed terrorists, arrested seven criminals, and freed two kidnap victims.<\/p>\n<p>One suspect was caught with \u20a63 million ransom cash in Bassa, Plateau State.<\/p>\n<p>Recovered items include arms, ammunition, vehicles, motorcycles, and explosives. Kangye said the operations would continue until threats to national security are eliminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0 The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), says troops of the Armed Forces killed several terrorists, arrested 85 suspects, and rescued 66 kidnapped victims in August. Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Markus Kangye, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday while briefing journalists on military operations across the country. In the North East, Operation Hadin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":74983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-74982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74984,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74982\/revisions\/74984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}