Much to talk about regarding the recent month in Sahel. In this summary, I am going to briefly describe events though their sheer quantity would demand an in-depth analysis.
Starting from overall statistics related to JNIM.
Following @p_vanostaeyen and my own data... we can with certainty confirm that the numbers are still highand depending on the context even higher. The overall count is isually mismatched with reality - jihadists for several purposes provide fewer info on their ops than they have commited in reality, especially ISGS.

We knew there was trouble brewing in Somalia from the Islamic State, and this international squad is a sign of what's to come and why Puntland supported by US forces started its offensive a few days ago.
A Tunisian, Moroccans, Tanzanians, Yemeni, Saudis, Libyan, Ethiopians. 1/3

https://twitter.com/SaladinAlDronni/status/1874493184522490210

2/3

Wanted to take a break, but what is going on in the East, where HTS is not present is getting out of control.
Turkey fanning the flames, its thugs from SNA executing en masse wounded SDF fighters in a hospital.
SDF killing dozens in botched try to quell unrest in Der. Increasing chaos with tribes, where the Kurds are out of their comfort zone, with no population support.
Islamic State insurgency waiting to expand and try the massive assault to rescue thousands of jihadists in prisons.
Where are the Americans?

This week kind of continues the whole month of al-Qaeda in Sahel (JNIM) brazen actions, with high-level jihadists at this point slowly leaving their lairs and operating all over the JNIM operation zone - which means the situation is obviously getting worse for the juntas.

https://twitter.com/SaladinAlDronni/status/1850498535721939431

I started from Niger, but if you check the map and see what happened in Mali, Burkina, Togo, Benin and yes, Niger, then there is no choice but to slowly acknowledge that there is trouble.
If you have been reading my dooming, nothing is surprising - al-Qaeda is coming.

Wanted to abstain but this is too much. If you only get this from that interview then I have no words letf. Especially since It's been a while I saw such an amount of half-truths, lies and gaslighting in one interview.

https://twitter.com/UlfLaessing/status/1790495754198372788

You can bash Americans and French for various reasons. Overconfident, inadequate support, at times arrogant. But it's not about how you can percieve it through biased lens but the reality.
And the reality is as such - thanks to the US, France, EU and Nigeria Niger still lives.

Islamic State Central has just released a video recorded by the IS militants during the attack in Moscow. Multiple bodies and a throat slitting of a dying man were shown in the process. #Russia





In the last moments, the video showed mall burning and militants safely withdrawing from the site.

Americans were warning of the threat of Islamic State Khorasan in a few countries, more recently in Russia with preliminary clashes with Russian security forces earlier this month. Curious if it's them. (Just yesterday they conducted a suicide bombing in Afghanistan's Kandahar).

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1771226977619358178

A very friendly reminder. Very very friendly.

https://twitter.com/SaladinAlDronni/status/1765934771039834252?t=NWoRXLBQnGZvvMnMA8ZObw&s=19

Islamic State in Mozambique has released a new photoset from their assault on the Mozambique Defence Forces in Mokojo, Macomia of Cabo Delgado. Dozens of soldiers were killed in the aftermath. #Mozambique





The army seems to have had an aerial support, the defence ended in a total disaster.
I published only a few photos of the whole gallery, with multiple beheaded bodies and at least 20-25 soldiers killed.
A massive loss.

About 50 foreign terrorists now operating in Mindanao, everyone belongs to the Islamic State – says Maj. Gen. Fernando Trinidad, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)
newsinfo.inquirer.net/961159/about-5… przez @inquirerdotnet But, as we have been talking about a lot in recent months with @ZamYusa most of them are Indonesians and Malaysians - in other words regional. News here is about an Egyptian (!) national, i have never heard about him before.