Jihadist in a sentence

IS Sahel has accused the community of collaborating with rival non-jihadist armed movements, though some Daoussahak are also part of the jihadist coalition.

Members of these jihadist outfits are also repeatedly threatening neighboring India of forcibly invading various parts under the notorious jihadist plot named ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’.

Addressing what would happen in the eventuality that the IDF succeeds in its stated mission of destroying Hamas, Kemp said the future was “far from clear” and underlined his concerns for widespread support of jihadist ideology among Gazan civilians.

American troops have been operating in Niger for years, aiding in attempts to combat jihadist terrorist operating in the greater Sahel region.

A well-respected academic and expert on jihadist groups, Hashemi was shot dead outside his Baghdad home in July 2020 by gunmen on motorcycles.

Bawku, in Ghana’s Upper East region, faces a simmering ethnic dispute that often flares into violence, as well as spillover risk from the neighbouring jihadist conflict.

Bazoum's removal heightened international worries over the region, which faces growing jihadist insurgencies linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.

France had stationed thousands of troops in the region at the request of African leaders to fight jihadist groups.

France has around 1 500 military personnel in Niger, sent to help the country in its eight-year-long struggle against a bloody jihadist insurgency.

Half of the countries with the most severe restrictions on religious freedom are in Africa, where there has been an increase in jihadist activity.

He warned that attacks from jihadist groups could increase and that Russia could expand its influence in the region if the coup leaders remain in power.

In March 2019, IS lost their last scraps of territory in Syria following a military campaign backed by a US-led coalition but jihadist remnants continue to hide in the desert and launch deadly attacks.

In November 2021, a German court convicted an Iraqi jihadist of genocide against the Yazidi, a first in the world that Murad hailed as a victory in the fight for recognition of the abuses committed by IS.

In the courtyard of her family’s tree-lined compound in a well-to-do neighborhood in Niger’s capital, members of Miriam’s ethnic group had been describing jihadist attacks on their historic community in a rural region to the north.

It is also battling two jihadist insurgencies -- a spillover in southeastern Niger from a long-running campaign in neighbouring Nigeria, and an offensive in the southwest of the country by militants crossing from Mali and Burkina Faso.

Security forces are still fighting a 14-year jihadist insurgency in the country’s northeast and heavily armed bandits carry out raids on villages and mass abductions in the northwest.

The attack targeted the base and airport believed to be part of the “Russian camp” stationed in the region to fight against the jihadist insurgencies.

The Islamic State group still has up to 500 active fighters in Iraq, a senior military official estimates, in the country where jihadist cells continue to launch sporadic attacks.

The leader “was killed after direct clashes” with jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib province, an IS spokesman said in a recorded message on its channels on the Telegram messaging app, without specifying when he was killed.

The motive for both coups was anger at failures to stem a jihadist insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives since spilling over from neighbouring Mali in 2015.