Islamic State claims attack in Burkina that killed 24 soldiers
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest attacks against the Burkina Faso military in recent months, the SITE website that tracks militant attacks reported on Thursday.
The attack took place on Aug. 20 in Koutougou, in the country’s northern Soum province. Militants killed 24 Burkinabe soldiers and injured seven others.
A statement from Islamic State quoted by SITE attributed the attack to the group’s West Africa branch.
Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-burkina-security-idUSKBN1W42QB
Long War Journal:
Al Qaeda, Islamic State report attacks in Burkina Faso
By Caleb Weiss | September 19th, 2019 | weiss.caleb2@gmail.com | @Weissenberg7
Over the past few days, both al Qaeda’s Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) and the Islamic State’s West African Province (ISWA) have claimed deadly assaults in Burkina Faso.
Starting with JNIM, the jihadist group stated that its men were behind the Sept. 12 raids on Burkinabe military positions in Nassoumbou and Baraboule. At least two soldiers were killed in the attacks, while five others were left injured.
JNIM’s version of events states that the militants killed four soldiers while also briefly occupying the two bases. Photos released by JNIM do indicate that the jihadist forces were able to raid the bases before withdrawing. Large amounts of weapons, ammunition, equipment, and personal possessions were shown captured.
More at: https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/09/al-qaeda-islamic-state-report-attacks-in-burkina-faso.php
An interesting history, Burkina Faso was once called Upper Volta, then, they had a leader who changed the name. Some say this guy, Thomas Sankara was a Communist or Marxist or Socialist type, I'm not so sure.
Country use to be called
Upper Volata I watched a documentary on him from that CGTV Africa (Chinese Global Television), not bad.
People seem to think the French probably deposed him.
I know which messed up system I'd rather live under but if he were alive, they'd be dealing with this too.
