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 ...

"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 ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

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 ...

Over the past year the extremists have spread south from Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. The exercise culminated with special forces troops from Cameroon, Morocco and Nigeria conducting a raid on a ...

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 ...

Malian forces, which have been fighting an Islamist insurgency for years, said they have arrested a leading figure. https://p.dw.com/p/4op96 The Islamist insurgency ...

Mali's army said Saturday its forces had arrested two men, one of them a leading figure in the Sahel branch of the Islamic State group. The army announced they had also killed several of the group ...

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

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 ...