Executive Summary: Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP) has long operated primarily across Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The group emerged from the Algerian and Sahelian jihadist milieu before pledging allegiance to Islamic State (IS) in 2015. It has since become one of the IS’s most lethal African affiliates, relying on mobile assaults, ambushes, improvised explosive […] The post IS-Sahel’s Nigeria Claims Signal a New Jihadist Frontier appeared first on Jamestown .