The Islamic State’s Sahara offshoot has claimed that it carried out the October attack in Niger that killed four U.S. soldiers and four Nigerien troops.
The Mauritanian Nouakchott News Agency reported on Friday that the self-professed IS affiliate, Abu al-Walid al-Sahrawi, claimed responsibility for the October 4 attack about 200 km north of Niger’s capital, Niamey. The news agency has carried messages from the affiliate before, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist websites.
The news agency says the extremists also claimed responsibility for an attack on Thursday on a French military convoy, and for a series of attacks in Niger.
