DAMASCUS, SYRIA (8:40 A.M.) – The French Army is paying a high price for its counter-insurgency efforts in northern Africa after being repeatedly targeted by an Al-Qaeda franchise group known ...
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (7:00 P.M.) – The official Al-Qaeda branch in West Africa, a franchise group known as 'Support of Islam and Muslims' (JNIM), has conducted its first attack against the ...
Islamist group Ansar Dine said Thursday it was holding three Red Cross workers captured in northeastern Mali last weekend and called for the release of a jihadist arrested by French ...
n 170 people hostage inside the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako. The hotel chain said two armed men have locked in 140 guests and 30 employees. with help ...
Hundreds of supporters of exiled former Malian president Amadou Toumani Toure, who was overthrown in a military coup in 2012, called for his return on Thursday in rallies held in ...
The Malian government and the United Nations on Sunday declared the country free of Ebola after 42 days without any new cases of the deadly virus. Health Minister Ousmane Kone ...
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita named seven new ministers on Saturday, with cabinet members replaced in key defence and economy posts in the strife-torn west African nation. The government of ...
Two UN peacekeepers were killed and nine others injured in a suicide attack on a patrol base in northern Mali, the UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA) said on Saturday. A vehicle ...
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