Burkina Faso attack: French embassy targeted in Ouagadougou per BBC News

This BBC report http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43257453 on the latest terrorist attack in Burkina Faso has to include this:

'Who was behind previous attacks?

This is the third major attack Ouagadougou has seen in the past two years. Islamist militants said they had carried out the other two.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said it was behind an attack on a restaurant and hotel in Ouagadougou in January 2016 that killed 30 people.

What has happened to al-Qaeda?

France intervened to stop that group taking control of neighbouring Mali in 2013.

But there are numerous other Islamist groups based in the region and militants have carried out attacks in several major West African cities in the past few years.'

Islamist terrorists probably to blame? I'm shocked, surely Islam is the Religion of Peace.