In March 2021, 33 soldiers were killed in an ISGS-claimed ambush as units were being rotated, and in February this year, around 40 civilians, suspected by the ISGS of being in league with al-Qaida ...

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 ...

U.S. forces had received intelligence that the target, believed to be Al-Sahraoui, was operating near the Malian border but crossed into the neighboring country before the mission was launched, a ...

Even before France announced Wednesday that its forces had killed the leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, the terrorist group appeared to be struggling.

al Sahraoui was the head of ISIS-GS, a jihadist group that broke away from other militants in Mali in 2015 when it pledged allegiance to Islamic State. Since then, ISGS militants have spread into ...

Since then, the group has continued to carry out attacks against regional security forces in Burkina Faso and Niger, as well as in Mali, where ISGS targets pro-government militias that support the ...

Mr. al-Sahraoui created I.S.G.S. with a band of followers in 2015, pledging allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. The militants carried out many deadly raids on security forces ...

In its joint statement, the Tuareg alliance said its forces battled several times with the now US-designated Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) over the course of three days. The conflicts ...