Northern Mali conflict
German Helicopter Serving With UN Crashes In Mali
A German helicopter with two crew on board crashed in northern Mali on Wednesday in an apparent accident while...
War Crimes Court To Award Timbuktu Damages In August
War crimes judges will next month deliver a landmark order for reparations for the razing of the fabled Timbuktu...
Malian Soldiers’ Bodies Recovered After ‘jihadist’ Attack
The bodies of eight missing Malian soldiers have been found following a presumed jihadist attack on July 9, official...
Top Malian Jihadist Killed As Unrest Intensifies
The Malian army said Friday it had killed a top jihadist commander operating in the country's troubled central region,...
Mali Conflict Spreading To Burkina Faso, Niger
The conflict in Mali is spilling over to Burkina Faso and Niger, with a significant surge of attacks by extremist...
Mali Relaunches Beleaguered Peace Process
Mali's government and armed groups which signed a 2015 peace deal have relaunched talks aimed at speeding up its...
UN Security Council Unanimously Welcomes Sahel Force
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Wednesday that paves the way for the deployment of a...
France, US Agree UN Draft On Anti-Jihadist Sahel Force
France and the United States have reached agreement on a draft UN resolution that would pave the way for the deployment...
Two Dead As Gunmen Storm Tourist Resort
Gunmen have stormed a tourist resort in Mali popular with Westerners and two people are dead, the country’s security...
Mali Attack: Two Dead As Gunmen Storm Tourist Resort
Gunmen have stormed a tourist resort in Mali popular with Westerners and two people are dead, the country’s security...
UN Peacekeeper Death Toll Rises After Mali Jihadist Attack
The death toll in a jihadist attack on UN peacekeepers in northern Mali has risen to four, the United Nations mission...
Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Deadly UN Base Attack
A powerful Al-Qaeda-linked group on Friday claimed an attack on a United Nations camp that killed three peacekeepers in...
Three Peacekeepers Killed In Northern Mali Attack
Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed and eight others wounded when they came under sustained attack in Kidal...
Why Are Sahel Countries Deploying An Anti-Jihad Force?
France has asked the UN Security Council to authorise the deployment of a five-nation African military force to fight...
France Will Ask UN To Authorize Sahel Counter-Terror Force
France will ask the UN Security Council to authorize an African military force for the Sahel region that will be sent...
Six Killed In Attack On Niger Military Post
Six members of the Niger security forces were killed when heavily-armed attackers ambushed a military position near the...
Mali Officials Deny Couple Stoned By ‘Islamists’
A threat by radical Islamists in northeast Mali to punish an unmarried couple with death by stoning finally was not...
Suspected Jihadists Wreck Mali Primary School
Suspected Islamic extremists have wrecked a primary school in central Mali out of hostility to Western-style education,...
Two UN Peacekeepers Killed In Mali
Two UN peacekeepers were killed and a third wounded on Tuesday in an ambush in restive northern Mali, the nation's UN...