The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) was founded in Uganda in the 1990s, gaining prominence as an Islamist rebel group and conducting deadly attacks on civilians in the early 2010s.

[1] The group pledged bay'ah to the Islamic State in 2019 and began carrying out its first attacks under the ISCAP moniker months later.

[1] On August 28, ADF-ISCAP militants killed 19 people in Kasanzi, also in Beni Territory.

[2] A survivor of the massacre told Reuters that the militants attacked late at night, and his son tripped and fell and was killed by the ADF.

[3] The ADF killed the residents with machetes, their modus operandi in village attacks.