Welcome to the forum GM.
There is no evidence that I know of that the latest IS related issues have emerged in Mauritania. If you go back a few years, AQIM were active there but two fundamental things happened:
1) The Mauri military clamped down hard
2) The AQIM head quarters in N.Mali was attacked by conventional French led forces (2012).
As a result, AQIM had little freedom to move in Mauri and had their hands-full in N Mali. We suspect they mostly de-camped to S.Libya (possibly also N.Niger) .
As I understand things, the main AQIM related (loosely used) insurgents that are still in N.Mali or are in S.Libya (or N.Niger) have yet to formally link with IS though the beheading in N.Mali over the last week reported elsewhere on STF is an ominous sign that they are thinking that way.
For now, Mauri is one of the very few Saharan countries that is in reasonable shape for travel.
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