A number of incidents including the recent public burning of the Muslim holy book have attracted the attention of Islamists.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) armed Islamist movement “is involved in anti-state activities, is a rebel and it has nothing to do with jihad,” leading mufti says.
The mass kidnapping is a first in the insurgency that spread to Burkina Faso from neighboring Mali in 2015 despite costly international military efforts to contain it.