Burkina Faso – Page 2

New video message from Jamā’at Nuṣrat al-Islām Wa-l-Muslimīn’s Shaykh Muḥammad Kūfā: “Storming Two Barracks in Burkina Faso”

Posted on February 19, 2023February 19, 2023 by Aaron Y. Zelin

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New video message from Jamā’at Nuṣrat al-Islām Wa-l-Muslimīn: “The Captured Burkini Soldier Sent a Message To His Government To Release Him”

Posted on December 14, 2022December 15, 2022 by Aaron Y. Zelin

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Source: Telegram

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New video message from The Islamic State: “And God Will Surely Support Those Who Support Him – Wilāyat Sāḥil”

Posted on December 12, 2022December 13, 2022 by Aaron Y. Zelin

The title of this release is in reference to Qur’anic verse 22:40. Here it is in full: “[They are] those who have been evicted from their homes without right – only because they say, ‘Our Lord is God.’ And were it not that God checks the people, some by means of others, there would have been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques in which the name of God is much mentioned. And God will surely support those who support Him. Indeed, God is Powerful and Exalted in Might.”

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Source: RocketChat

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The Islamic State’s Third Bayat Campaign

Posted on December 1, 2022December 19, 2022 by Aaron Y. Zelin

Previously, I tracked the bayat campaign for Abu Ibrahim after Abu Bakr’s death and then for Abu al-Hasan after Abu Ibrahim’s death. This post will do the same with the announcement of Abu al-Hasan’s death and Abu al-Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurashi as the new leader of the Islamic State. As I said in the original post:

There are two main reasons for this: 1. pledges are leader-specific rather than group-specific and thus need to be renewed with each succession and 2. it is a way to legitimize al-Qurashi’s rule and create a media event so that the group can promote itself as it transitions to a new phase.

The first reason is also something that IS pointed to when it began to overtly feud with al-Qaeda (AQ) in 2013, by saying that following Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi’s death, his successor Abu Hamzah al-Muhajir gave baya to the newly created Islamic State of Iraq’s leader Abu ‘Umar al-Baghdadi and even after Abu ‘Umar was killed, when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took over in 2010 and then Usamah Bin Laden was killed in 2011, Abu Bakr never publicly gave baya to Ayman al-Zawahiri, even if al-Zawahiri claims he gave it to him privately. Therefore, from the perspective of IS this whole process is not trivial, but important for legitimacy of its leadership and to potentially weed out any insubordination before it manifests into something larger as it already did in the past vis-a-vis AQ.

This post will be updated with the latest official pledges.

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December 1, 2022:

Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyah – Sambisa Region