The Islamic State’s Sahel Province published it’s most impressive video ever titled أسود الساحل (Lions of the Sahel) A small thread 🧵

Senior Research Fellow Wassim Nasr with Newsweek: "We should not underestimate neither the way for the ambition of the Islamic State to link territories, which they are doing in between Nigeria and the Sahel, nor the impact of that on their capacities." newsweek.com/isis-waging-de…

#Nigeria 🇳🇬: Bandit leader "Bello Turji" and gunmen under his command released a new video with quite rare weapons. Bandits are seemingly armed with a rare #Turkey-made 🇹🇷 Sarsılmaz SAR 556 MT machine gun and SAR-308 assault rifles.

ISWAP fighters watch IS-Sahel's new release 'Lions of the Sahel', intentionally displaying rare weapons captured from Nigerian/Cameroonian special forces and others smuggled.

One of the most interesting lines in the recent Monitoring Team report: "JNIM was observing developments in the Syrian Arab Republic closely, which may offer a blueprint should the group eventually seek independence from Al-Qaida."

IS-Sahel fighters watch IS-Mozambique's new release 'Light of Jihad'.

Niger: The army announced that Boko Haram leader Ibrahim Bakoura, known as Abu Oumaima, was neutralized while operating in the Lake Chad area.

🚨New podcast episode! Host Zara Farouk speaks with analyst Wladimir van Wilgenburg (Wladimir van Wilgenburg) about how the SDF–Damascus agreement is reshaping governance, autonomy, and regional dynamics in #Syria. Listen here: newlinesinstitute.org/state-resilien… #SDF #Kurdistan

ISWAP is funding activities of IS in Iraq, & possibly Syria as well, just how IS used to financially support its far away provinces during its peak, African IS provinces now return the favor and support their Iraqi and Syrian brothers in the birthplace of the so-called Caliphate.

#ISWAP now funding IS in Iraq... A testimony to ISWAP's state-building in the NE of Nigeria, and notably to its fiscal development... yes, dried fish and cattle and bags of millet are not as fancy as Captagon and heroin, but with proper admin, you rake millions in...

#sahel The Islamic State expands its stronghold into Niger's Tillabéri on the three border region, while rival JNIM entrenches further and deeper in Mali & Burkina Faso FRANCE 24 English youtube.com/watch?v=fuP5GM…

Article about Boko Haram's origins by @vincentfoucher.bsky.social and a colleague, highlighting the infamous "Abu al-Bara al-Dourawi", author of the infamous al-Risalah article: unmaskingbokoharam.com/2019/04/10/al-…. Article here: sari.global/news-updates/f…. Also see: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

ISWAP terrorists ambushed a convoy protected by the Nigerian army between Gubio and Damasak yesterday, 13 terrorists were killed and weapons recovered according to army sources. An MRAP was damaged, 2 trucks set ablaze and a soldier injured according to an initial toll.

IS and JNIM statistics for August 2025 101 claims via official media channels 77 by JNIM, 24 by ISWAP and ISSP combined Burkina Faso again bore the brunt with 45 attacks, followed by Mali (35), Nigeria (15) and Niger (5) Soon available CEP counterextremism.com/blog/sahel-mon…

Here’s my controversial speech & debate at the NatCon conference on US-Mideast policy. I show how the Tucker wing of the Republican Party managed to get everything wrong about the Iran war, why “Realists” like John Mearsheimer make consistently incorrect, absurd claims about

Was interesting to discuss SE Asia in the context of global counter-terrorism on Phil Gurski podcast. Listen here: borealisthreatandrisk.com/has-the-philip…

1. Latest piece Hudson Institute: Here I take a deep dive into the life and legacy of the slain Kenyan sheikh Aboud Rogo. Despite being dead for 13 years, he retains significant influence across eastern, central, and southern African jihadist milieus hudson.org/religious-free…

Incredibly, before the Portugese political scientist Jose Zuquete compiled this 2023 edited volume there’d been no serious handbook of academic research on left-wing extremism. It features experts on everything from anarchism to “Wokism.” Must-read in light of the Kirk shooting.

1. For its first video in three years, the Islamic State's Central Africa Province released a video entitled "Jihad and Da'wah." Very clearly intending to reach both its Ugandan roots and those around E/S/C Africa. Some quick points and other notable info will be in this thread.