JNIM claimed in July 2024 a "complex ambush" had wiped out a convoy during the Battle of Tinzaouaten, killing 50 Russians and a number of Malian soldiers, and published videos showing several vehicles ablaze as well as dozens of bodies in the area. A Tuareg militant group spokesman said some Malian troops and Russian fighters had also been ...

JNIM flag Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is a terrorist group based in Mali and active across much of West Africa, including parts of Burkina Faso and Niger.

JNIM, whose name means the “Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims,” seeks to incite the West African Muslim community to “remove oppression” and expel non-Muslim “occupiers.”

JNIM terrorist group originally consisted of four Islamist groups affiliated with al Qaeda: Ansar Dine, Al Mourabitoune, the Macina Liberation Front (MLF), and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Today, Al Mourabitoune has been dismantled after the death of its leader Mohamed Ould Nouini.

Aug 24, 2024 · Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), meaning “The Support Group for Islam and Muslims,” is an al-Qaeda affiliated group based in Mali that has in recent years expanded its operations to neighboring countries such as Burkina Faso, Niger, and Senegal.

Jul 15, 2021 · The Transnational Threats Project’s Examining Extremism series provides an overview and assessment of JNIM—a Salafi-jihadist organization active in the Sahel Region of sub-Saharan Africa.

Nov 13, 2023 · Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (Support Group for Islam and Muslims, or JNIM) is a Salafi-jihadist group and the Sahelian branch of the transnational al-Qaeda organization. The armed group’s immediate parent organization is the Algeria-based al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), whose roots emanate from the Algerian civil war of the 1990s.

JNIM is an al-Qa’ida aligned Salafi-Jihadist organisation that strives to build a Salafi-Islamist state in West Africa. The organisation is primarily based in Mali but active across much of West Africa, including Burkina Faso, Niger, and Togo.

When ISIS lost its territorial caliphate in Iraq and Syria, JNIM took advantage of ISIS’s seemingly weakened position among the wider extremist nexus and asserted more dominance throughout the Sahel.

Nov 24, 2020 · Foremost among the groups carrying out the violence and exacerbating the issues is JNIM, which, since its formation in March 2017, has been responsible for a 300-percent spike in violent attacks and a dramatic increase in civilian targeting.