🏴❌🇳🇪🇧🇫 — Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP) ambushed a large convoy of joint Nigerien and Burkinabe army.

➡️ A joint convoy of the two armed forces heading from Dori to Seytenga to then cross to Niger was ambushed by ISSP terrorists on the 11th January

➡️ 25 soldiers were killed and 5 vehicles burnt, a soldier was also captured alive by the militants, his fate is unknown.

➡️ 3 vehicles were captured by the militants, along with different weapons and ammunition.

➡️ IS also says one of their fighters died in the clashes.

According to War Noir, IS fighters were armed with:

#China-made 🇨🇳 Type 80 machine guns, #Romania-made 🇷🇴 PM md. 90 rifle, AKM / Type 56 rifles and Type 3 AK-47 rifle.

🇺🇸🇺🇸💰 — U.S President Donald Trump has officially pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of online black market ‘Silk Road’, from his life prison sentence.

💸Ross Ulbricht created the Silk Road, a dark web marketplace that used Tor and Bitcoin to enable anonymous transactions for mainly illegal goods and services. It launched in 2011 and became infamous for drug sales.

🔒In 2013, Ulbricht was arrested by the FBI and later convicted of charges like money laundering, drug trafficking, and computer hacking. He received a life sentence without parole in 2015.

🤔💭Some argue his sentencing was overly harsh and view Silk Road as a free-market experiment, while others see him as a criminal responsible for enabling widespread illegal activity. His case raises debates about privacy, freedom, and online commerce.

🇧🇫❌🏴 — Burkinabe drone struck several ISSP terrorists on the Seytenga - Daka axis, reportedly killing 3 and the army recovered 2 rifles, some tools and a bike pump.