An attack on a mosque in eastern Burkina Faso has killed dozens of Muslims on the same day as ... including an important religious leader,” the source added. Soldiers and members of the ...

The drivers were the latest victims of insecurity in the Sahel, an arid swath of land south of the Sahara where militant groups such as the Islamic State Sahel Province ... The Moroccan Embassy in ...

Although Ivory Coast contains over 60 ethnic groups and several religions ... the majority of whom are Muslim and have family ties to Burkina Faso or Mali, while the south is government territory.

This local branch of the Islamic State group (ISIS ... while also conducting several attacks in Burkina Faso near the border with Mali and an attack on a high-security prison near Niger’s capital ...

The insurgency has quickly expanded since then. Today, Ansarul Islam is composed largely of Peul fighters and it conducts attacks across northern and eastern Burkina Faso, as well as operating on the ...