Jun 2019. ISIL in Congo

June 2019. ISIL has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in an Ebola-stricken eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “The victims were killed by bullets and others by bladed weapons,“ Bakwanamaha said. He added that the violence was likely a response to a crackdown by the DRC’s army last week that killed 26 ADF members after they had earlier attacked an army position in Ngite, a village near Beni. The ADF has never claimed allegiance to ISIL, but the latter recently alleged that its “Central Africa Province“ affiliate had inflicted “dozens of casualties“ on Congolese forces, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors the armed group’s online activity.