Conflict Research
Irish 🇮🇪 Remote Operations Security Advisor.
Based in Africa, monitoring conflict principally in North Africa & the Sahel Region. (Remote_Ops on X but mostly for research purposes)
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- 31.01 #Libya #Niger Video posted by an armed group of its takeover of the Al-Tum border post, between Libya and Niger. The situation has apparently bee escalating along the border following accusations that militias loyal to Khalifa Haftar are exploiting local populations & stealing resources.
- #Nigeria ISWAP appoints Abu Khalifa as new commander in Timbuktu Triangle following the killing of its former commander, Julaibib, by Nigerian troops.
- According to the conflict tracking account WAMAPS on X, there were 77 terrorist attacks in January in the Sahel AES nations & Nigeria. Burkina Faso, 32 attacks claimed by JNIM Mali, 28 attacks - 26 by JNIM / 2 by ISSP Niger, 10 attacks - 5 JNIM / 5 ISSP Nigeria 7 attacks - 6 ISWAP / 1 Boko Haram
- #Mali Dozo Militia in the Bandiagara area of Dogon country, appealing for help from the Security Forces & Russians. They state that Islamic militants have surrounded their positions, hence this call for help.
- 02.02 #Mali Security sources have told Agence France Press that at least 15 drivers were murdered during a JNIM attack on a fuel convoy between Diboli, on the border of Senegal & Kayes. Close to 50 fuel tankers were destroyed.
- 02.02 #BurkinaFaso JNIM claimed responsibility for carrying out IED attacks against 02 Security Forces vehicles between Dyarakorosso and Noumoukiedougou in southwest Burkina Faso near the Ivorian border.
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- Reposted by Conflict ResearchI mean, they are correct in that the graphic does not glorify or valorize any specific incident. It glorifies all of them. Any of them. However you do it, it glorifies them. It's a general glorification of shooting people in the head without due process of law simply because you don't like them.
- "There is no labeling in the graphic, and there are no identifying features... this graphic does not glorify nor valorize any incident because it lacks any reasonable connection," the college Republicans who posted this graphic said in a statement. dailyillini.com/news-stories...
- 02.02 #Niger At Least 03 members of the Security Forces have been killed in an attack attributed to IS-SP on the National Guard Camp in Ayorou. The militants later fled taking 03 vehicles equipped with 12.7mm heavy machine guns along with other weapons and ammunition.
- If you follow me and I follow you back and you try and you immediately DM me to hock me your book / merch / whatever...go fuck yourself.
- Reposted by Conflict ResearchLosses from the attack on Base 101 at 🇳🇪 Niamey. 1x DA-42 MPP Guardian (ISR) 2x C-208 (ISR) 1x Mi-171 (combat transport helicopter) 1x TAI Hürkuş (light attack)
- It took the Islamic State two days, but as expected - the terrorists needed this time to prepare propaganda of Niamey airport assault and deal a blow to the Nigerien junta as I was warning. ISGS was able to locate drone storage facilities and destroy some of them. #Niger
- Reposted by Conflict ResearchEgypt is secretly hosting a major military drone base in its Western Desert that has become central to Sudan’s civil war, marking a sharp escalation of foreign involvement, the New York Times reports. Satellite images, flight data, videos, & interviews reviewed by the Times indicate that advanced...
- 29.01 #Niger Although there's been no official statement is much lower, several sources have said that the attack on Niamey’s Air Base 101 has resulted 27 deaths (03 Russian / 24 Security Forces) along with 18 wounded. Video released by IS-SP is also very contradictory of the scale of the attack.
- 29.01 #Niger IS-SP have released their own footage of the attack on Niamey airport.
- 01.02 #Mali JNIM carried out an IED attack on a Security Forces / Africa Corps vehicle between Goundam and Diré, in the Timbuktu region.
- 01.02 #Mali JNIM has claimed responsibility for an IED attack on a Security Forces vehicle, between Markala and Ké-Macina, in the Ségou region. No official casualty figures have been released yet.
- 01.02 #Mali The Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) targeted a Security Forces / Russian Africa Corps patrol in Inbogitane (18.080340, 0.641750) not far from Anefis in the Kidal region.
- 29.01 #Mali IS-SP carried out an ambush at Agarmbaw on the Chibam axis northwest of Menaka reportedly killed 06 and wounded a further 07 members of the Security Forces and Russian Africa Corps mercenaries.
- 30.01 #Mali Security Forces have stated that they killed more than a dozen terrorists in an airstrike southeast of Mourdiah.
- 30.01 #Mali Turkish manufacturer Baykar delivered 02 new Akıncı to the air base in Sévaré.
- The U.S government travel advisory for Niger.
- 31.01 #Mali JNIM has issued a claim to have to have carried out an IED attack on a Security Forces vehicle between Sikasso and Loulouni.
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- 30.01 #Libya Heavy fighting has broken out again in the in Azzawiya area west of Tripoli between the GNU-aligned 459th Battalion and two rival forces: the Presidential Council’s Security Support Apparatus, and the Counter Security Threats Apparatus.
- 30.01 #Niger The Islamic State - Sahel Province has officially claimed responsibility the attack yesterday on Base 101, the military section of Niamey Airport. Several attackers were killed with other captured after causing damage to the military's drone fleet & other civilian aircraft.
- 29.01 #Niger Loud explosions and heavy gunfire in the Niamey airport area just after midnight in the area of Base 101. at Base 101 in Niamey. The large-scale, well-coordinated likely carried out by JNIM based on previous attacks the group has mounted.
- 29.01 #BurkinaFaso JNIM attacked and seized a VDP militia checkpoint at Passore.
- 29.01 #BurkinaFaso JNIM have claimed the killing of 04 members of the Security Forces in an attack at Pibaore. The group have also claimed the killing of 05 VDP militia fighters on the outskirts of Rambo.
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- 29.01 #Niger After more than 11 hours of attacks the images are circulating. No official claim so far, but it is looking likely that the attack was carried out by IS-SP.
- 29.01 #Niger Loud explosions and heavy gunfire in the Niamey airport area just after midnight in the area of Base 101. at Base 101 in Niamey. The large-scale, well-coordinated likely carried out by JNIM based on previous attacks the group has mounted.
- 29.01 #Niger Sources have told Sky News Arabia that the attack was a "surgical operation" targeting the shipment of uranium. On the 16.01 the Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) held an emergency of all security agencies to discuss intelligence of an "imminent terrorist attack" on the airport.
- 29.01 #Mali JNIM claimed responsibility for the ambush of a Security Forces convoy between Diboli and Kayes. No casualty figures were given.
- 29.01 #Niger Loud explosions and heavy gunfire in the Niamey airport area just after midnight in the area of Base 101. at Base 101 in Niamey. The large-scale, well-coordinated likely carried out by JNIM based on previous attacks the group has mounted.
- 27.01 #BurkinaFaso At least 11 members of the Security Forces were killed in an attack at Balga by JNIM.
- 27.01 #BurkinaFaso Jnım claimed responsibility for an attack on a VDP militia post in Ouahigouya.
- 25.01 #Niger 02 members of the Security Forces killed in an IED attack between Samira and Farié and 02 injured. The attack occurred between Guidare and Koutoume (13.615603, 1.499972), about twenty kilometers from Farié while the Security Forces escort was coming from Samira in the Tillabéri region.
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- Renault has pledged to push its long-range attack drones into mass production, intending for their delivery to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
- Reposted by Conflict ResearchMadrid points to 'positive impact' of migration as it moves to grant 500,000 undocumented people legal status.
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- 26.01 #Niger 10 members of the Security Forces were killed along with 02 attackers during an attack on the police post at Assamaka in northern Niger not far from the border with Algeria. The unidentified attackers arrived in 06 pick-up trucks.
- 25.01 #Mali JNIM released images of a Security Forces / Africa Corps vehicle it destroyed with 02 IEDs between Douentza and Boni. Causality numbers are not available.
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- 25.01 #Mali Security Forces issued a statement to they conducted airstrikes against JNIM militants southeast of the Mourdiah military camp.
- 25.01 #Niger JNIM issued a statement claiming responsibility for an IED attack on a Security Forces vehicle between Niamey and Barkiavel (25kms from the capital).
