Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM)

Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims or JNIM). The group is the result of a merger of four groups: Ansar Dine, the Macina Liberation Front, Al-Mourabitoun and the Saharan branch of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Attacks are sometimes still attributed to these individual groups.

The Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert: Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. The majority of the group’s attacks have been launched in northern and central Mali,...