the Greater Sahara attacked a Burkinabe army outpost in Nassoumbou, Soum Province, Burkina Faso, killing twelve soldiers. The attack was the first claimed...

in a press release where they claimed responsibility for the 2016 Nassoumbou attack against the Burkinabe army. In the press release, Dicko called himself...

attack was the deadliest incident for Burkinabe forces since the Nassoumbou attack in 2016. Northern Burkina Faso has been embroiled in a jihadist insurgency...

Nassoumbou is a department or commune of Soum Province in north-western Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Nassoumbou. 2016 Nassoumbou attack...

for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). It has since declared its intention to attack European (including Spanish and French) and American targets. The group...

prisoners have escaped. December 16 – 2016 Nassoumbou attack: Several dozen heavily armed gunmen attacked an army outpost near the border with Mali, leaving...

in 2015. One Bastion was destroyed by Ansar ul Islam in the 2016 Nassoumbou attack. In Mali, the 134th Escadron de Reconnaissance (Recce Squadron) was...

existence in December 2016 in a statement claiming responsibility for an attack in Nassoumbou. It was founded and led by Ibrahim Malam Dicko until his death in...

Retrieved 2019-03-29. "4 Burkina Faso soldiers killed in attack on military base in Nassoumbou". The Defense Post. 2019-01-28. Archived from the original...

Burkinabe forces abandoned military posts in Nassoumbou, Inata, Tongomayel, Baraboulé, and Koutougou following the attack. All five areas are located on the Malian...

This is a list of terrorist incidents which took place in 2016, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political motives. Note that terrorism...

first homegrown Burkinabe jihadist group. Ansarul Islam's first attack was in Nassoumbou, killing a dozen Burkinabe soldiers. On the night between November...

On 15 January 2016, gunmen armed with heavy weapons attacked the Cappuccino restaurant and the Splendid Hotel in the heart of Ouagadougou, the capital...

Faso's military. In the aftermath of the 2011 Libyan Civil War, militant attacks have increased due to a large influx of weapons and fighters into the region...

several unidentified gunmen attacked the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, in a gun and grenade attack. At 2:20 am local time, between...

On 3 May 2021, Islamic militants attacked Kodyel, a village in Foutouri, Burkina Faso. The attack left at least 30 people dead and another 20 injured....

Ouagadougou was also the site of a similar attack in 2016, which took place in the same district as the 2017 attack. Later that year, the region was struck...

it was a deliberate attack. A 24-year-old man named Niser bin Muhammad Nasr Nawar was the suicide bomber, who carried out the attack with the aid of a relative...

August 18, 2021, suspected Islamists attacked a civilian convoy, killing 80. On August 18, 2021, Islamists attacked and civilian convoy as it was being...

proportion of attacks have been focused on Soum province. On 16 December, Ansarul Islam killed dozens of people in the attack on Nassoumbou. On the first...

Algeria. One of Belmokhtar's senior lieutenants, Abdul al Nigeri, led the attack and was among the terrorists killed. After four days, the Algerian special...

Mauritania. The bombing killed the perpetrator and wounded three people. The attack occurred three weeks after Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz had claimed victory in...

after the attack took place. The first attack, which was on the prime minister's office, killed 12 people and injured 118, and the second attack on the police...

December 2007. The attack happened near Aleg, 250 km east of the capital Nouakchott. The victims, five French tourists on holiday, were attacked while they were...

On 4 and 5 June 2021, insurgents attacked the Solhan and Tadaryat villages in the Yagha Province of Burkina Faso. The massacres left at least 174 people...

particularly on Soum province and it killed dozens of people in the attack on Nassoumbou on 16 December. Between 27 March – 10 April 2017, the governments...

In the earliest major attack as direct spillover of the Algerian conflict, the Mauritanian army base at Lemgheity was attacked by the GSPC in June 2005...

Mreiti base attack occurred on 4 June 2005 when militants from the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, a predecessor group of AQIM, attacked a remote...

the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front was reported to have condemned the attacks, joining President Bouteflika in calling the perpetrators "criminals"....

unidentified gunmen attacked a cattle market in Fada N’Gourma, Gourma Province, Est Region, Burkina Faso. 2019 Fada N’Gourma attack "Gunmen kill more than...