#Mali: Unofficial #JNIM video captioned: "This is what happens between Support of Islam [JNIM] and the Kharijites [#ISGS] (Kawaridiakobe in Fulfulde)", fighters including visibly child soldiers are seen beheading ISGS members/sympathizers in the area of Arabanda (Malian Gourma)
#Mali: An assassination campaign was carried out by Ansaroul Islam (#JNIM) during the first half of July in the areas of Kobou and Boulikessi, #Mopti
#Mali: Paradoxically, the video is accompanied by a signature #IslamicState nasheed, namely Qariban Qariba.
#Mali: AQIM/JNIM groups certainly committed such acts on numerous occasions, but such scenes were always edited out in official publications. JNIM has also gone to great lengths to hush up the jihadi-on-jihadi fighting.
#Mali: It is said in the video that it's a message to #ISGS in Arabanda in Mali and #BurkinaFaso, but the beheadings probably relate to the assassination campaign mentioned earlier.

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