The special forces unit has received training from the EU and the US to help it fight jihadist groups (file picture) Mali's anti-terror police have been widely ...

"It is a jihadist attack. Malian special forces intervened and hostages have been released," Mali Security Minister Salif Traore told AFP news agency after Sunday's attack. Four assailants were ...

He and local civil society association Kal Akal said Malian armed forces and allied fighters from Russia's Wagner private military contractor group had carried out the attack. In a separate ...

The group conducted and continues to conduct attacks against French, UN, and Malian forces before and since the creation of JNIM. While Ansar al-Din remains orientated around Kidal with a composition ...

Earlier this year, Ukrainian special forces apprehended three Russian Wagner ... Read also: Russian mercenaries suffer heavy casualties in Mali rebel ambush ...

The French-led Takuba task force of EU special forces has officially ceased operating in Mali, France announced Friday (1 July), ending a year-long anti-jihadist effort that soured after two ...

The vehicles and weapons used by Malian militants who attacked government forces and Russian instructors ... They had reconnaissance and special units <…>, necessary vehicles and weapons.

Ukrainian special services have offered ... some rebels received training from Ukrainian forces on how to fly drones. The ...

Dicko was a Peul commander linked to Ansar al-Din who was arrested by French forces in Mali in 2015 and then later released. The group’s first attack against Burkinabe forces was in December 2016, ...