{"id":46370,"date":"2026-02-09T04:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-latest-weapon-used-by-al-qaeda-and-islamic-state-linked-jihadists-in-west-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T04:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:35:15","slug":"the-latest-weapon-used-by-al-qaeda-and-islamic-state-linked-jihadists-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-latest-weapon-used-by-al-qaeda-and-islamic-state-linked-jihadists-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest weapon used by al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked jihadists in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Military Africa, an online defence industry source, reported that last February, JNIM had also used what are known as first-person view (FPV) drones  &#8211; when the pilot has a live feed from the drone &#8211;  to drop improvised explosive devices, made from plastic bottles, onto military positions in Burkina Faso&#8217;s Djibo town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cew8vldpzdyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Africa, an online defence industry source, reported that last February, JNIM had also used what are known as first-person view (FPV) drones &#8211; when the pilot has a live feed from the drone &#8211; to drop improvised explosive devices, made from plastic bottles, onto military positions in Burkina Faso&#8217;s Djibo town. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46372,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46370\/revisions\/46372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}