New Profiles and Articles on TRAC
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The title of the training video of heavily armed masked men is a reference to Brenton Tarrant.
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The Islamic State Central Africa (ISCA) announced its presence in the DRC on 18 April 2019 claiming credit for the attack. Since then two more claims to credit followed. At the time of writing little detail is available on who exactly the ISCA is, but it does seem like a cell constituting only a few fighters.
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IEA claims that the NGO is involved in training to "kill, torture, & targeted attacks" at the behest of the United States.
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The second bombing at a Sufi shrine for the month of May.
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TRAC Top Line Analysis on Organized Crime in West Africa with a detailed breakdown in table format.
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Media reports credited IEA at the time of the attack, but, ISK has been known to target Sufi shrines over IEA.
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The Fezzan remains an imported keg in gaining security in Libya. It is an area with vast oil fields as well as a gateway for organized crime such as human trafficking and arms smuggling.
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In the early morning hours of 03 May 2019, a group of 8 to 10 'malfeitores' attacked the village of Nacate outside Macomia.
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First video of Baghdadi since the announcement of the Caliphate in Mosul.
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The contents of Suspect John Earnest's 'Open Letter' and his failed attempt to livestream the attack indicate the shooting was inspired by Christchurch and the right-wing extremist culture on anonymous social media platforms.
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The Sammanthurai raid appears to be a huge Islamic State IED manufacturing facility, equipped with drones.
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Amaq video is the second execution video released for ISWA in the month of April.
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IS Supporters Adverise "Soldiers of the Caliphate in Mozambique" For the Second Time - 25 April 2019IS attempting to leverage Mozambique's instability as expansion.
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The NTJ remains relatively unknown and before the 21 April 2019 attacks was known for condemnation of Buddhism in Sri Lanka resulting in the defacing Buddhist statues.
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IS propaganda against KSA is always constant.
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In the early hours of 21 April 2019, six bombings were reported in Sri Lanka. Three churches in Kochchikade, Negombo and Batticaloa and Shangri La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury hotels, all in Colombo were targeted. Following the six bomb blasts two more bombings were reported. The seventh bombing targeted a hotel in the southern Colombo suburb of Dehiwala and the eight in in the district of Dematagoda/Demantagoda.
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The attack bares all the hallmarks of Islamic State Khurasan (ISK), who has claimed 14 attacks on the city since 2019.
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In early March 2019, Naba #172 announced expansion efforts in Africa.
