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🏴❌🏳️ — The clash ended with a stalemate with no clear evidence of any losses from both sides. The reason of the clash is still unknown with a possibility that ISSP was the one to start the attack against JNIM. Any rumors of the clash being a result of ISSP attempt to steal cattle from the local population is regarded as nothing but rumors without proof, lacking trustable sources and only coming from sketchy accounts. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴❌🏳️ — Clashes were reported between ISSP and JNIM east of the Timbuktu province, Gossi region, on the evening of July 21. More info to follow soon... @Conflict_Monitor

🏴😞🇵🇭 — Suspected Islamic State East Asia Province militants on a motorcycle targeted on July 18 a military truck with a grenade, injuring two soldiers in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanoa del Sur. The two military trucks were headed towards Barangay Limbo, Sultan Kudarat, where two previous attacks occurred: First attack and Second attack. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴❌🇳🇪 — The Nigerien Army announced that 16 soldiers were killed and 23 were wounded, 9 of them seriously injured, following an ambush by suspected ISSP militants on July 17 in the Tera-Bankilari road, Tillabéri region. They also claimed to have killed 15 militants in the attack, capturing 5 motorcycles, and destroying 4 others. Forcing the fighters to retreat due to their aerial assets. Giving the nature of the juntas always lying about their casualties, its safe to assume that the deaths/injuries of their soldiers are much higher than what have been published. Same thing can be said about the casualties and material losses of the attackers being lower, if they even exist. @Conflict_Monitor

🏳️❌🇲🇱🇷🇺 — The downing of the Mi-24 helicopter came following an attack on a Malian barracks in the Mopti region. The destroyed helicopter was one of three helicopters that attempted to evacuate the wounded from the attacked barracks by JNIM in Kouakourou, Mopti. As a result, the helicopter was shot down and the other two came under fire forcing them to retreat, which made the Malian and Russian forces send their troops just to be targeted with IEDs. That being a FAMA/AC military vehicles, motorcycles, and a convoy of vehicles, all between Douentza and Boni in the Mopti region. This marks the second Mi-24 helicopter to be shot down in July. The other one was downed in July 5. @Conflict_Monitor

🏳️😞🇲🇱 — JNIM claimed to have targeted a Malian army helicopter near the town of Kouakourou, in the Mopti region, on the evening of this Sunday, July 19, resulting in the destruction of the helicopter and the death of its crew. @Conflict_Monitor

🏳️❌🇲🇱🇷🇺 — Hamza Ag Iyad, the only son of JNIM Emir Iyad Ag Ghali, whom Africa Corps claimed to have wounded during the July 4 offensive, was seen leading today's ambush against Malian and Russian forces. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴❌🇸🇾 — Idlib – A member of the Syrian Internal Security Forces was killed after being targeted by gunmen on a motorcycle. The deceased is Abdul Hamid al-Aswad, from the city of Kafranbel in the Idlib countryside. His body was found by a patrol from the Highway Security Branch south of the Tabish intersection on the Khan Sheikhoun road. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴⁉️🇸🇾 — Gunmen on a motorcycle targeted a Syrian army soldier at the Al-Awsajli intersection in the western countryside of Manbij, Aleppo Governorate, wounding him. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴❌🇸🇾 — A sticky IED planted under a car belonging to a member of the 86th Division was dismantled in the city of al-Ra'i in Aleppo. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴❌🇳🇪 — suspected Islamic State Sahel Province ambushed a convoy of the Nigerien army on the Tera-Bankilari road in the Tera region of Tillabéri province on July 17, resulting in the death of at least 40 soldiers and the capture of 12 vehicles as primary toll. @Conflict_Monitor

🏳️🏳️😞🇲🇱🇷🇺 — Today, a joint convoy of FAMA/AC coming from Gao and heading towards Anefif was ambushed by JNIM/FLA in the area of Tabarishat. The ambush left dozens killed/wounded, destroyed/captured vehicles, while most of those killed were captured moments before bing executed by the FLA. With the rest of the fleeing convoy returning to Gao. Both groups took claim of the attack, while Africa Corps didn't acknowledge the loss yet, it only relied on drone strikes to showcase some dignity if there's any of it left. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴😄🇨🇩 — The Islamic State Central Africa province (ISCAP) announced that it had repelled an attack launched by the Congolese army and allied militias who attempted to recapture their barracks and positions in the village of (Tebe), in the Mambasa district of (Ituri) province, on Wednesday, July 15. The clashes resulted in the deaths of 7 Soldiers and militia members and injuries to 10 others, with their weapons and ammunition seized after they fled. This is the second such attack to be repelled. A Congolese army force and militias attempted to retake their positions in the same village on July 4, and the clashes at that time resulted in the deaths of 12 Soldiers and militia members and injuries to at least 10 others, along with the capture of 4 of their rifles. It is reported that ISCAP militants seized these locations after raiding the villages of (Bangwe) and (Tebe), and neighboring villages in the Ituri region, on Monday, June 29th. They captured dozens of Christians, seized some of their property, and hundreds more fled the villages. The attack resulted in the capture of five villages and three mining sites, which remain under their control to this day. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴❌🇸🇾 — The Syrian MoD announced the death of one of its soldiers who was shot by gunmen on a motorcycle in the Al-Sa'da area of ​​Deir ez-Zor province. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴❌🇳🇬 — Suspected Islamic State Sahel Province militants ambushed a Nigerian army patrol near the village of Zormoko in the Tangaza area of Sokoto region, killing one as a primary death toll. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴😄🇳🇬🇳🇪✝ — The ISWAP claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in Borno and Adamawa, Nigeria, and the Diffa region of Niger. –Borno On Thursday, July 9, they attacked a Nigerian army barracks in the town of Miringa, Borno State, with machine guns, causing soldiers to flee. When a reinforcement patrol arrived from the town of Biu, they detonated two IEDs against the patrol, resulting in casualties among the soldiers and the destruction of one 4×4 vehicle and damage to another. Two operations took place in the neighborhoods of (Maiduguri), the capital of Borno State, on Thursday, July 9th. In the first operation, they attacked a Nigerian Army position in the Ajilari neighborhood with machine guns, forcing the soldiers to flee. The ISWAP militants seized a rifle and a motorcycle from the position before setting it on fire. They also killed another soldier in an attack on a checkpoint within the city, coinciding with a mortar attack on the Giwa Barik camp, also within the city. - An attack on a Nigerian Army position near the town of (Buratai) with machine guns resulted in the soldiers fleeing the position. The militants seized two mortars and a number of shells before withdrawing. - Two government vehicles were burned in an ambush on the Gajiram-Mayarari road. - On Tuesday, July 14th, they killed a member of the CJTF militia near the village of (Lia). - An attack on a Nigerian Army camp in the town of (Krus) on Saturday, July 11th, resulted in clashes involving machine guns, ending with the soldiers fleeing the camp and their quarters being burned. Their barracks inside the camp, in addition to the burning of a 4×4 vehicle and a truck by ISWAP militants -Niger — Diffa On Friday, July 10, they killed two Nigerien soldiers and disabled a vehicle in a machine gun attack on their checkpoint in the town of (Gamari) in Diffa. The following day, Saturday, July 11, soldiers fled their checkpoint in the town of Maini after being attacked with machine guns. ISWAP militants seized two rifles and a 4×4 vehicle and burned three other vehicles before withdrawing. The operations that targeted Christians were: On Wednesday, July 8. They killed a member of a Christian organization after previously capturing him on the road between Gubio and Karito in Borno. On Monday, July 13, they killed two Christians and burned ten houses, a vehicle, and a motorcycle in an attack on the village of Sora in Adamawa. On Thursday, July 9, they raided the Christian village of Kautama in Borno, burning several houses and a vehicle, and seizing a motorcycle and some property. @Conflict_Monitor

⬛❓🏳️😞🇧🇫 — Yesterday, the BIR special force announced the elimination of 9 militants in Dori. Its unclear who the fighters belonged to (ISSP or JNIM), since the area of Dori has the presence of both groups. But the majority of Dori is under the influence of ISSP, meaning it could be the naturalized force. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴😞🇮🇶 — The Islamic State trough its weekly Al-Naba Newspaper claimed the killing of the lieutenant in the Counter-Terrorism Service, who was killed on July 5. Stating that the attack resulted in his death and the capture of his weapon In an ambush carried out by a single fighter. While confirming that the double air strikes after the attack and the retreat after the failed conter attack did not result in any casualties among their fighters. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴😞🇸🇴 — Islamic State Somal Province detonated an IED on a patrol of Puntland Forces. On 0:33 you can hear one of the fighters telling another to detonate, following a short delay, the IED explodes on the approaching vehicle and the troops surrounding it without any further details about the casualties yet. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴⁉️🇵🇭✝️ — Another incident took place on Tuesday afternoon when armed men on a motorcycle targeted a senior technician at a Catholic radio station with pistol bullets, wounding him. He later succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, while the assailants fled the scene in Barangay Limbo, Sultan Kudarat. @Conflict_Monitor