Paweł Wójcik 🦋

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Analyst of War on Terror, representative for Poland. Tracking networks of AQ and Islamic State. ME.Sahel. PL - @saladinalsaheli Looking for work. DM open

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Remains abandoned by Russian contingent again litter the desert, losses are indeed sizeable. Just yesterday, the Russians seem to have supplied Bamako via shipment through Conakry in Guinea, on Thursday, the Turks resupplied drone base in Sevare. Bloody days ahead. #Mali

Day of Rage in Mali. After unprecented in scale attacks in 2024 inside Bamako, 2025 offensives in Western Mali catching Mali junta and Russians off guard, and this year's back and forth with FPV drones, Tuaregs are back with JNIM clearly cooperating. Politically huge.

It seems like the largest battle with Islamic State in years for Turkey. At least 3 policemen were killed, nine injured. Six Islamic State members were shot dead by the Turks. A whole Elmalik village in Yalova province was put on lockdown. The operation is ongoing. #Turkey

Debris of SU-24 and Russian pilots that fell into a river in Gao, the Tuaregs claim that the aircraft was hit yesterday during the battle north of Kidal and today morning, forcing it down. #Mali

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Remains abandoned by Russian contingent again litter the desert, losses are indeed sizeable. Just yesterday, the Russians seem to have supplied Bamako via shipment through Conakry in Guinea, on Thursday, the Turks resupplied drone base in Sevare. Bloody days ahead. #Mali

The battle of Anefis between the rebel coalition of JNIM and FLA against the government side supported by Russian military continues. Tuaregs release a new video of this time four FPV strikes against immobile targets in the camp the battle for entered 4th day today. #Mali

Two immobile targets visible on the newly published FLA video of FPV strikes (they have at this point proven reserves of those + a trained operative team). First is a bit outside the Anefis military camp, the second is right in the center. #Mali #Anefis

10 more targets from the last few hours as announced by IDF in Tehran. Overall, the amount of bombings since last night has been massive in the Iranian capital alone.

The single most humiliating event of Russian campaign in Africa, going way beyond Tinzawaten 2024 disaster. Withdrawal of hundreds of Russian soldiers from Kidal on April 25/26, witnessed by massive al-Qaeda contingent and taunted on the way. No going back from this one. #Mali

The buildup was needed to showcase the argument that Mali is only one country of the complex and convoluted picture. Without understanding what happened elsewhere, we can't understand what happened here. With Jules Duhamel map. Second part of 🧵- the motives and lost dreams.

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And finally, a video recorded with GoPro cameras of the Islamic State assault in the capital of Niger. Grim is an understatement, the sheer size of IS's contingent making it to the airport, the destruction, the freedom of movement. We have barely started 2026. #Niger #Niamey

JNIM storming Burkina Faso army fortifications in one of the largest terror group's attacks in recent week. Hundreds of al-Qaeda jihadists on motorcycles aided by drones monitoring the battlefield. The junta regime army runs away. One of many concurrent operations. #BurkinaFaso

Tuaregs enter Tessalit, after another Russian withdrawal from a key base location. A week after, the situation remains volatile, JNIM/FLA consolidated their gans. Eyes on Timbuktu. Blockade around Bamako. Russians stay. War continues in Burkina Faso and Niger. Thread tommorow.

Mr. Shekau wouldn't be happy with the house of Saud today unharaming western music in the country ;).

CTC at West Point They had over a decade to prepare - the Islamic State drone program was already foreboding of what was to come. Only to squander any knowledge by labeling people studying warfare as woke. I am tired.

Day of Rage in Mali. After unprecented in scale attacks in 2024 inside Bamako, 2025 offensives in Western Mali catching Mali junta and Russians off guard, and this year's back and forth with FPV drones, Tuaregs are back with JNIM clearly cooperating. Politically huge.

Foreshadowing a lot-this is the "best" in quality video from Islamic State in years,not even sure how many years it has been since I saw them stepping up this much. Which is not a good news. Most of the content is from last few months, with Niger, Burkina Faso and Niger. #Sahel

It seems like the largest battle with Islamic State in years for Turkey. At least 3 policemen were killed, nine injured. Six Islamic State members were shot dead by the Turks. A whole Elmalik village in Yalova province was put on lockdown. The operation is ongoing. #Turkey

Tuaregs with a new video from the battle with Russian convoy on Friday, A compilation of different shots circulating around here, though there are some new ones or at least I see them for the first time. And indeed, we got the first clear vid of FPV drone striking Russians. #Mali

My top three Disney moments from my childhood. Shan Yu is just something else, true villains like this are so rare these days. Back then, only Frollo from Quasimodo challenged him in my mind. Mulan was such a good cartoon.

New video from JNIM just dropped - about the military camp Khalid bin Walid. I am fairly certain some record of ethnicities, tribes and clans was achieved here - for a clear purpose. Also, for the veterans of the Syrian Civil War - you will certainly recognise the Nasheed ;).

ISWAP has just released a three minutes long video with a narrator, that depicts the battle of Kukawa from two days ago. The video shows the claimed SVBIEDs and sizeable jihadi forces attacking the Nigerian army base #Nigeria

*Niger A continuation of what I have been warning of every month, ever since president Bazoum was deposed in July 2023 - security degradation and consistent exploitation of the security vacuum caused by the French withdrawal in particular, and the US, cannot be patched up.