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🏴⁉️🇵🇭✝️ — 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

🏴😄🇨🇩 — North Kivu | An armed attack on Tuesday evening left four people dead and three others injured, according to preliminary reports, in the Home 4 and Kalunga neighborhoods of Mangina town in Beni province. The attackers also set fire to several houses and properties before withdrawing. This attack followed another one early Monday morning in Mbutaba, a town located in the far northwest of Beni city, specifically in the Matimbo neighborhood (Mulekeira municipality). Initial reports from that attack indicate three people were killed and several others injured. According to details provided by the provincial governor, the attackers began their advance from the villages of Kirutsi Wanzafula, west of Mangboko. During their advance, they captured two local residents and forced them at gunpoint to act as guides to help them move around the area. The attackers' convoy reached Mbutaba around 5:00 AM. There, the attackers executed one of the two hostages who were acting as their guide, before killing two other people found there. The attack was attributed to ISCAP. The Congolese armed forces were criticized for failing to protect and provide security for the local population and for their slow response, arriving some time after the attackers had withdrawn towards Toha Kaina, near Sayo. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴😞🇵🇭 — Recently, two Filipino police officers were killed in a suspected Islamic State East Asia Province (ISEAP) ambush in Barangay Tinumiguisin, Sultan Kudarat. @Conflict_Monitor

🏳️😞🇲🇱🇷🇺 — JNIM claimed to have killed three Malian soldiers and the capture of another, destroying eight vehicles, and seizing two vehicles along side weapons and ammunitions. Africa Corps support convoy was also targeted with an IED on its way to the ambush site. @Conflict_Monitor

It is said that those who killed him used to be under his command in JNIM. The attack took place in the Burkina-Niger border. Potentially close to the bordering Nigerien village of the first clash between ISSP and JNIM on April 2, Niger, leaving 35 JNIM militants dead after trying to steal the livestock of those in the village. @Conflict_Monitor

🏳️😞⬛ — JNIM announced the assassination of the previous defected commander "Saad Fada,"somewhere in northeast Burkina Faso. In addition to two of his bodyguards. He defected on February, 2026, and prior to his death He made several audios prior to his death accusing JNIM doing peace talks with Ivory Coast, Mauritania, and Benin, in addition to their alliance with the FLA and their lack of Sharia within their territory even among their fighters when stealing or killing locals. Since his defection, ISSP attacks against JNIM increased in Burkina Faso which might have to do with his intel about their camps. Now that he is dead ISSP will further increase its attacks pushing south with their latest claimed attacks happening on June to July. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴😞🇸🇾 — Yesterday, a sticky IED exploded on the vehicle of "Ali al-Askar" in Officers' Club Street in the Al-Qusour neighborhood of Deir ez-Zor city. He is one of the security leaders in Deir ez-Zor, and the head of the planning and organization department in the city. The target was not in the car during the explosion. @Conflict_Monitor

🏳️😄🇬🇳 — JNIM ambushed a convoy of the Malian Army east of the city of Niono, in the Ségou region, on Sunday, July 12, 2026. Dozens killed and wounded, armored vehicles, tankers, military vehicles destroyed or set on fire. @Conflict_Monitor

🏳️❌🇬🇳🇷🇺 — In a new video, M'Barek Akli, the Defense Chief of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), whose neutralization during the Battle of Anfif was announced by the Africa Corps on July 4, 2026. Appearing on July 12, 2026, he asserted that the Battle of Anafif "is not over," that Malian forces will leave Anafif "under duress," and that operations will continue until "the complete liberation of Azawad" and its independence. He also maintains that "Mali will know neither security nor stability before the independence of Azawad." Addressing the families of Malian soldiers, he states that the FLA holds "more than 200 prisoners" from the Malian army and invites relatives seeking news to contact the Front directly, without going through the "cursed" junta. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴😞🇸🇾 🇮🇶 — Gunmen on a motorcycle targeted a convoy of fuel tankers belonging to Iraq last night on the Homs-Tartous highway as it headed towards the Banias refinery. The convoy was being escorted by Syrian security forces, but failed in stopping the attack being the fourth of it's kind within a month. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴❌🇲🇿 — The Islamic State, through its Amaq news agency, claimed responsibility for targeting a Mozambican naval force that attempted to advance towards the coast of Kitirajo in Macomia, Cabo Delgado, on Thursday, July 9, with rifles and machine guns, forcing them to retreat. The Mozambican army has a poor reputation among fishermen and coastal villages in Macomia due to forced displacement, arbitrary arrests, and mass killings, some of which have been documented by international organizations such as ACLED and Human Rights Watch. This situation has led some fishermen and villagers to seek protection from the ISM while carrying out their daily work. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴🌟— Al-Naba newspaper confirmed that ISCAP militants stormed the village of Butongwe after Congolese army soldiers fled. The militants remained there for four consecutive days, during which they gave lectures and lessons on Islamic doctrine. Al-Naba also confirmed that some villagers converted to Islam, while others agreed to pay the jizya (a tax levied on non-Muslims) in exchange for remaining safe in their homes and on their land. @Conflict_Monitor

🏳️🏳️😞🇲🇱🇷🇺 — Corpses of Russian Mercenaries of the Africa Corps that fell in the ambush of yesterday. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴⁉️🇸🇾 — A member of the Internal Security Forces was killed in an attack by unknown gunmen on a security checkpoint between the Qubba al-Sheikh and Tarhin areas of Deir Hafer in Aleppo Governorate. The deceased was Saddam Ahmed al-Hussein al-Jumaili, a member of the Internal Security Forces, from the village of Tell Ahmar in the eastern Aleppo countryside. @Conflict_Monitor

The two Christians who were killed in Dand @Conflict_Monitor

🏳️🏳️😄🇬🇳🇷🇺 — Yesterday, a convoy of the Malian Army, Russian Africa Corps and pro-government GATIA militias, were ambushed by JNIM/FLA fighters on their way to reinforce the town of Anefis and its base since its capture on yesterday. The convoy included more than 200 Russian fighters and more than 100 Malian soldiers. Aside from the GATIA militias which managed to make an FLA force retreat somewhere in the outskirts of Anefis. Footage confirms casualties from dead, injured, and captured Russian/Malian troops. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴❌🇨🇩 — Al-Naba Newspaper released pictures of dead Congolese Soldiers and the weapons seized from them in previous attacks @Conflict_Monitor

🏴⁉️ — A sorcerer named "Rashad al-Ghurair," was killed by cutting his throat for practicing witchcraft in Ruwaished Village, north of Deir ez-Zor. It should be noted that attacks targeting sorcerers have continued for years, with IS claiming responsibility for most of the operations. @Conflict_Monitor

🏴❌🇵🇰✝ — The Islamic State Pakistan Province claimed the killing of two Christians in the village of Dand in the area of Mastong in Balochistan, with rifles. The Christians were cricketers who got killed during a cricket match, according to police. The assailants fled the scene following the attack, and an investigation was lunched. @Conflict_Monitor

🏳️🏳️😞🇬🇳🇷🇺 — Today, the Malian Army and Africa Corps took over the town Anefis after 4 days of fighting since July 4, breaking the siege of the base. FAMA/AC faced no resistance from JNIM/FLA, aside from the destruction of two vehicles due to IEDs on their way from Gao in the convoy to capture Anefis. It only took dozens of killed/injured troops, destroyed/captured vehicles, and two helicopters in addition to a Shaheed Drone. All of that to capture a town without a fight and brag about it as a win. @Conflict_Monitor