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JNIM: How an al-Qaeda ally became Africa’s most dangerous jihadist group and why the US should worry
Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) has become one of Africa’s most dangerous extremist groups, responsible for a surge in deadly attacks and growing instability across the Sahel (the vast ...
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Rebels pressure Mali's junta as it struggles for control
In the wake of fresh, coordinated attacks in Mali by jihadists and their Tuareg allies, the country's junta appears more ...
The Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al-Qaeda’s branch for the Sahel and wider West Africa, released photos earlier today documenting a rudimentary training camp somewhere in Burkina ...
Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims—JNIM) is a coalition of Salafi-jihadist insurgent groups operating in the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. Formed in ...
Al-Qaeda-affiliated JNIM has in recent days claimed to have inflicted heavy losses in Burkina Faso as a surge in deadly jihadist attacks sweeps across the Sahelian state. Burkina Faso, ruled by a ...
The jihadi group JNIM has been active in the Sahel for almost a decade. It recently caught the world’s attention after claiming its first attack in Nigeria, prompting a response from US President ...
Ƙungiyar Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), mai alaƙa da Al-Qaeda na da hannu a hare-haren iƙirarin jihadi a Yammacin Afirka, musamman ƙasashen Mali da Burkina faso da Nijar. Ƙasashen uku na ...
On 13–14 September, Al-Qaeda affiliate Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) conducted a series of attacks in western Mali targeting convoys of fuel tankers originating from Senegal. The group ...
Police stand around the debris of a car at the site of a terror explosion in Kaduna, Nigeria, 2012. Stringer/AFP via Getty Images The Sahel region, south of the ...
I found my family and my neighbor’s family massacred. My wives [and] my children were dead…. The only survivor [from my family] was my 11-year-old son…. I found the bodies lying on the ground, bullets ...
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 ...
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