Shocking footage has emerged showing the frontline fighting of the Nigerian army against Boko Haram in Nigeria.
VICE News correspondent Kaj Larsen spent several days embedded with ground and air troops, as they prepared an assault on one of the last Boko Haram strongholds in the city of Bama just weeks before the country's presidential election.
The War Against Boko Haram shows the beginning of one of the largest military insurgencies to date, with footage from the trenches and the Nigerian military airstrikes against the extremist Islamic group.
Larsen speaks to several commanders and soldiers in the Nigerian army, made up of troops from surrounding countries such as Chad and Cameroon, as well as private military combatants and Nigerian soldiers.
One of these soldiers is Private Jeremiah "Jerry" Friday, stationed with the 72nd paratroop unit at an abandoned airport in Maiduguri. He says he and his troops of both Christian and Muslim faiths are prepared to fight the "devils" to the death.
"Muslim, Christian, is same. We are all soldiers and we are determined to beat Boko Haram," said Private Friday.
The documentary comes as a Nigerian woman told the BBC she saw more than 50 of the Chibok girls abducted last year by Boko Haram militants alive three weeks ago in the town of Gwoza.
Watch the full VICE News documentary The War Against Boko Haram here:
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