On July 1, 2019 Islamic State in the Greater Sahara militants attacked the mining town of Inates, Tillabéri Region, Niger, killing eighteen Nigerien soldiers.

[1] The attack began at 2:30 p.m. when ISGS assaulted a Nigerien military post on the outskirts of the town of Inates with two suicide bombers.

[4] On July 15, a Tuareg leader named Almoubacher Ag Alamjadi was assassinated by ISGS in Inates, two and a half months after the murder of his father.

[8] In September 2019, the Nigerien government accused members of the High Council for the Unity of Azawad (HCUA) in complicity with the ISGS.

[9][10] An official Nigerien document stated that equipment taken by ISGS from the attack was transported to Tin Fadimata in the Ménaka Region of Mali by HCUA members.