The group’s leader, the former MUJAO commander Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahraoui, declared his adherence to the Islamic State in May 2015, although ISIS only recognised the pledge of allegiance (bay’a) to ...

The government attributed the assault to militants of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, ISGS. Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert focused on the Lake Chad region, disclosed this in ...

Suspected attackers from the "Islamic State" militia in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) massacred worshippers at a mosque in southwestern Niger, the country's Interior Ministry said on Saturday.