ISIS Claims Attack on Burkina Faso Convoy that Resulted in Dozens of Casualties

Amaq, the semi-official media outlet of the Islamic State, has has confirmed that militants of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) carried out a large scale ambush on a Burkina Faso military convoy in Oudalan Province earlier this week, claiming that 70 Burkinabe soldiers were killed and dozens were left wounded.