The main two groups operating in the region are the al-Qaida-linked militant group Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM ...

Head of the US National Counterterrorism Center Brett Holmgren has said that ISIS has “prioritised Africa as a growth ...

The attack was officially acknowledged by the Islamic State through its news agency, Al-Amaq, stating that it resulted in the death of 30 Nigerien soldiers. The Sahel region is witnessing a surge ...

This local branch of the Islamic State group (ISIS) was at first self-proclaimed, the outgrowth of a schism within MUJAO. The group’s leader, the former MUJAO commander Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahraoui, ...

IS and al-Qaeda's JNIM are both active in the Sahel region where they compete for power West Africa's Sahel region has become the latest scene of jihadist in-fighting, after Islamic State group ...

It is clear with these assaults that while JNIM is the dominant jihadist actor in the region, the Islamic State’s men have been able to expand into conducting high-profile attacks in the Sahel thereby ...

Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) September 15, 2021 Sahrawi was the historic leader of Islamic State in the Sahel region of West Africa and his group targeted US soldiers in a deadly attack in ...

Violent extremist organizations have expanded their ambitions, capacities, and geographical reach into the Sahel and West Africa, extending an Arc of Instability across an area of strategic interest ...

Last summer, reports circulated in the Afghan and international media that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the mercurial leader of a faction of the Hizb-i-Islami (called Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin, or HIG) had ...

By Eve Sampson U.S. airstrikes hit several Islamic State camps in the Syrian desert ... such as Africa’s Sahel region, exploiting political instability and weak central governments.