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2026-10-13 Africa North
Islamic State claims to have killed 400 JNIM fighters, including emirs


Translated Text:

🚨 URGENT | EI-S VS JNIM

The Islamic State claims to have killed 400 JNIM fighters, including emirs, and claims responsibility for the destruction of 300 motorcycles as well as the seizure of a vehicle, more than 460 machine guns, 13 rocket launchers, and 104 other motorcycles.
Surely those numbers are a bit high — more like “1, 2, many” in meaning.
The organization states that the majority of the fighters were killed during pursuits, following a battle near Ganadawari, in Oudalan province.

Yet, Daesh's propaganda resembles that of the AES: extravagant figures.

During the battle between the two groups near the border with Burkina Faso, more than 500 EI-S fighters were killed, including five emirs, among them Anas, Barjou, and Ikrima.

JNIM mobilized tens of thousands of fighters and cannot be defeated in this battle, despite Mali's overt support for EI-S: strikes targeting JNIM positions, with no comparable strikes against those of EI-S.

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Gigantic battle continues that is taking place on the border between Burkina Faso and Mali
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Translated Text:

Mali BurkinaFaso Jnim Issp the gigantic battle continues that is taking place on the border between Burkina Faso and Mali, on a front that is just under 200km, from Tillaberi in Mali to the Oudalan region (particularly the natural reserve north of Aranda).

ISSP is the first to have broken the silence, claiming more than 400 JNIM members killed and the conquest of 200km of territory. Jnim has not yet commented.

The battle is undoubtedly the largest in history between 2 jihadist-inspired formations, such as Jnim (affiliated with Qaeda) and ISSP (Saharan branch of the Islamic State).

It is occurring in a territory often mixed, straddling the 3 borders (Mali, Burkina, Niger), now completely out of the control of the respective states. A huge area with few natural resources that the various groups seek to seize.

Clashes in this friction zone between the 2 movements have always existed, but here it is the scale of the clashes that stands out, also given by the numbers (certainly inflated) released by ISSP and the first important local leaders of the movement "martyred" in the clash.

That the battle was in the air was also understood from Jnim's lack of reaction to the governmental capture of Kidal. Likely that the movement was already preparing for the ISSP offensive on this territory.

Both movements have maintained Opsec until today, and it is likely that in the next few hours there will also be a statement from Jnim (which will give its own version of the clashes)
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Posted by badanov 2026-10-13 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [77 views ]  Top
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