On August 11th, five members of the national security force, the gendarmes, and one civilian were killed when the vehicle they were riding in struck a land mine. The truck was carrying security forces who were escorting miners to an extraction site. Regional governor Ousmane Traoré has accused the numerous jihadist groups that plague the …
On March 2nd, seven soldiers and 9 assailants were killed, and 80 civilians were wounded during two simultaneous attacks on the French embassy and a military headquarters in Burkina Faso’s capitol Ouagadougou. While the other was on a military headquarters. The attack was claimed by the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam …
Blog Post: Jihadi Militants Take Fight to French in Burkina Faso On the evening of January 15, 2016, al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists launched an assault on a hotel and café targeting the Cappuccino Café, and Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougo. The four attackers, two of whom were women, entered the hotel, and seizing hostages, leading to a …
Islamic State suspects arrested in Saudi Arabia Saudi security forces arrested two suspects involved in an Islamic State sleeper cell, following separate operations taking place in Riyadh and Darma, Saudi Arabia. Two brothers, Ahmed Mohammed and Mohammed Saeed Zahrani were arrested in an operation Tuesday night in Riyadh. The brothers had been flagged for suspicious …
Adnan Abu al-Walid al-Sahrawi, the leader of the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) has claimed responsibility for the April 4 kidnapping of a Romanian security worker in northern Burkina Faso on the Mali border. Romanian authorities are still determining the authenticity of the tape, which accuses the Romanian government of being slow …
After days of unrest, Burkina Faso’s president Blaise Compaoré has agreed to step down. This comes after not only of days of violent protests caused by his desire to seek another term as president, but also his proposition to oversee a political transition with elections to be held in 90 days. His opponents, leading to his …
The situation in Burkina Faso has deteriorated from bad to worse. The African country’s parliament was set to vote on legislation that presumably would have allowed President Blaise Compaore to seek another term. As mentioned earlier this week at Freefire blog here, “the potential for violence is a legitimate fear.” It is no longer a …
Blaise Compaore has been the President of Burkina Faso for 27 years. Burkina Faso’s National Assembly will begin to study a proposal to adjust the current two-term limit, implemented back in 2000, in a way that would allow him to run again in 2015. The specter of this type of move has already caused unrest …
Originally published by Terror Trends Bulletin The UAE publication “The National” has published an article on 2019’s deadliest terrorist groups. It seems rather odd that it took so long to publish such an article about 2019, but perhaps the Wuhan virus pandemic is responsible. The article ranks terrorist groups by the number of reported deaths they …
The Islamic State’s (ISIS) Al Furqan Foundation for Media Production issued two threatening statements over the weekend. Quoting the Islamic State’s official spokesman, Abu Hamza al-Qurashi, ISIS first directed a statement at the Gulf states that have recently recognized the state of Israel. Al-Qurashi called on Islamic State members/supporters to target Western personnel, pipelines and …