source: Fasozine; AFP; WAT FM; Hoop; Infowakat; Aujourd8; Xinhua; MinuteBf; RFI; AIB (Burkina Faso)
actor1: Islamic State (West Africa) - Greater Sahara Faction
actor2: Military Forces of Burkina Faso (2015-)
location: Arbinda
notes: On 24 December 2019, ISGS militants launched a large-scale attack against the military base in Aribinda, the assault was initiated by the explosion of a suicide car bomb, four soldiers and three gendarmes were killed in the attack, the defense and security forces routed the militants with the air-support and eighty militants were reportedly killed in the counter-attack.