Nigerian security forces recently arrested two of the country’s most wanted militant leaders, Mahmud Muhammad Usman, the self ...

JNIM, along with the rival Islamic State-Sahel Province, has turned the region into an epicenter of Islamist insurgency. The Institute for Economics & Peace’s annual index last year found 51 ...

A weekend attack by the jihadist group Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) in Burkina Faso has resulted in the deaths ...

In Benin and across West Africa, riders viewed with suspicion as motorcycles now synonymous with armed fighters.

Ongoing conflict in Mali with devastating consequences for the regular army and the local population.

As we reported earlier, an AI-generated image of European leaders waiting for President Donald Trump at the White House has ...

Turkey has steadily increased its foothold in the central Sahel by providing arms, security assistance, and more to regional juntas. Similarly, The Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), Al ...

A Western security source estimated JNIM has 6,000 to 7,000 fighters. That makes it the most powerful armed group in the region.

JNIM launched a coordinated attack on multiple Malian army positions across the country’s western and central regions, including an assault on a village near the Senegalese border(AP).

Violent events linked to militant Islamist groups in the Sahel—Burkina Faso, Mali, and western Niger—have surged nearly sevenfold since 2017. With more than 1,000 violent episodes reported in the past ...

Unlike JNIM, Islamic State in the Sahel is a loose coalition of anti-government forces that is much less entrenched politically, he said. They are much more dominant in the Lake Chad region.

Three days later, JNIM killed two Malian gendarmes near Dialloubé in the Mopti Region. While on the same day, 18 Chadian peacekeepers and two civilians were wounded in a JNIM rocket barrage on the ...