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FILE - In this Wednesday Oct. 15, 2014 file photo, soldiers accused of refusing to fight in the country's northeastern Islamic uprising appear before a court martial in Abuja, Nigeria. Nigeria's army is reviewing the court-martials of more than 600 soldiers and officers, including dozens condemned to death for allegedly deserting the battle against Islamic extremists, according to an order received by The Associated Press on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga, File)

Nigeria: Review of soldiers condemned in Boko Haram war

By MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013 photo, Nigerian soldiers ride on an armored personnel carrier during Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Hundreds of Boko Haram extremists tried to attack the biggest army base in northeast Nigeria overnight but met fierce resistance from soldiers who fired artillery throughout the night. Booming cannon and whooshing rockets woke people living around Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, the northeast's biggest city. Hundreds fled though some were returning home Thursday, May 14, 2015. Many villagers were killed by shells that hit the outlying village of Kayamla, where the soldiers engaged hundreds of militants, according to Muhammad Gava, a hunter who is secretary of the self-defense Vigilante Group of Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Nigerian military: 10 Boko Haram camps destroyed in forest

By MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

In this photo made available by the Nigerian Military taken Wednesday, April 29, 2015, a Nigerian soldier speaks to woman and children that were allegedly rescued by the Nigerian Military after being taken by Islamic extremists in Sambisa Forest, Nigeria. Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote Sambisa Forest, Nigeria's military said amid reports that some of the women fought their rescuers fiercely. (Nigerian Military via AP)

Nigerian troops who fled Boko Haram now have them on the run

By MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

In this photo made available by the Nigerian Military taken Wednesday, April 29, 2015, a Nigerian soldier stands next to woman and children that were allegedly rescued by the Nigerian Military after being taken by Islamic extremists in Sambisa Forest, Nigeria. Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote Sambisa Forest, Nigeria's military said amid reports that some of the women fought their rescuers fiercely. (Nigerian Military via AP)

Nigerian military: 234 more females rescued from Boko Haram

By Michelle Faul - Associated Press

In this Monday, May 26, 2014, photo, the Nigerians United Against Terrorism group attends a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria. Nigeria's defense chief said Monday that the military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but cannot use force to free them. (AP Photo/Gbenga Olamikan)

Nigerian defense chief says abducted girls located

By MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

Christians pray during a service to support the release of kidnapped girls in Nigeria, at a church in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Boko Haram, the militant group that kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria, said the girls will only be freed after the government releases jailed militants. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Angry Nigerian soldiers fire on senior officer

By HARUNA UMAR and ADAMU ADAMU - Associated Press

Shehu Haruna reads a local newspaper with headlines declaring that the military were alerted before the abduction of secondary school girls in Chibok, on a street in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, May 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Insurgents blow up 2nd bridge in Nigeria, abduct wife, 2 kids

By Michelle Faul and Ibrahim Abdulaziz - Associated Press

A young girl stands amid the burned ruins of Baga, Nigeria, on Sunday, April 21, 2013, in this image shot with a mobile phone. (AP Photo/Haruna Umar)

Warplanes, troops in northeast Nigeria; mobile phones cut

By Haruna Umar and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

World Briefs: More than 30 civilians killed by Nigerian military

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES