In a statement relayed this Friday by a Mauritanian news agency, a jihadist group who pledged allegiance to Daesh claimed a series of recent attacks in the Sahel against French and American soldiers.
The jihadist organization of Adnan Abu Walid Sahraoui, who has pledged allegiance to the Daesh group, has claimed a series of attacks in the Sahel, including against French and American military, in a statement relayed Friday by the Mauritanian private agency ANI.
He proclaims his “responsibility in the attack against an American commando in October in Niger, in the Tongo Tongo region”, previously largely attributed to the group, but which has not been claimed, as well as against the one that struck Thursday the French force Barkhane in Mali, according to the statement quoted by the ANI (Agence Nouakchott Information).
On 4 October, four US soldiers and four Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush by jihadists in Tongo Tongo, a village near Mali. Three soldiers from Barkhane were wounded on Thursday, including one seriously, in a suicide car bomb attack on their convoy between Menaka and Indelimane, in north-eastern Mali, said Friday the staff of the French armies.
