Pro-government militias in Burkina Faso are implicated in video footage circulating on social networks showing the massacre of dozens of civilians in and around the western city of Solenzo on March 10 ...

This analysis of JNIM was published in 2018 and is not being updated. For a more recent analysis of JNIM from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program, please click here. JNIM, whose name ...

Kidnappings have skyrocketed in the Sahel in recent years, according to data from the U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, or ACLED. JNIM, the Sahelian branch of al-Qaida ...

In 2022, JNIM claimed an attack on the Kati military ... The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, or ACLED, website reported in 2023 that violence targeting civilians in Mali had increased ...

Hasan al Ansari can be seen sitting to JNIM leader Iyad Ag Ghaly’s (center) left. In its official claim of responsibility for Friday’s terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, al Qaeda’s Group ...