The SITE group, which specializes in monitoring radical terrorist groups, said on Saturday the ISIS Central Africa Province (ISCAP) had grabbed credit for the attack in the Tshopo province.
''The ISIS stated that fighters shot at a militia post in a village in Tshopo, killing three personnel, then turned their guns on Christians inside the village,'' the group said in a statement.
The statement added that the group had also set fire to more than 50 houses.
SITE also said in its statement that the ISCAP has ''not previously carried out operations'' in the Tshopo area.
The ISIS group portrays the ADF — Allied Democratic Forces
...established in the early 1990s through an agreement between portions of Uganda’s Salaf Tabliq Islamic sect and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), who said they had been sidelined by Museveni’s policies. At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages and the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred. A Ugandan military operation later forced the ADF into eastern Congo. The ADF has since established ties with the Islamic State group. The ADF has received funding from the Government of Sudan, which has also provided supplies and training. The ADF may also have received funding from the illegal mining and logging industries of the DRC....— as its central African branch.
The ADF pledged allegiance in 2019 to the ISIS which has grabbed credit for a number of ADF attacks and describes the ADF as its regional affiliate.
The group, originally made up of mainly Moslem Ugandan rebels, has established a presence over the past three decades in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka
Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
, killing thousands of civilians.