BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian politician Soumaila Cisse’s captors kept him constantly on the move in the inhospitable desert, he told French television, describing his six months with al-Qaida-linked militants as “near permanent physical and…
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 30 soldiers in Mali earlier this week. A statement late Wednesday asserts that another 30 soldiers were wounded in Monday’s…
TRIPOLI. (Reuters) – Libyan authorities have arrested a suspected al Qaeda leader who fled from the eastern city of Derna, once a jihadist bastion, a source in the attorney general’s office said on Friday. Abdel…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.S. military says it has killed 11 al-Shabab extremists with a pair of airstrikes outside Somalia’s capital. The U.S. Africa Command statement says Wednesday’s airstrikes were in self-defense after al-Shabab fighters…
PARIS — French and Malian troops killed about 30 Islamist insurgents during a gunbattle in a region near the border with Niger, where Islamic State are known to be active, the French army said on…
President Trump on Tuesday spoke to the families of four soldiers who were killed during an ambush in Niger earlier this month. The calls came after Trump was criticized for not immediately making a public…
The U.S. military has confirmed three U.S. service members were killed and two others injured when a joint U.S.-Niger military patrol was attacked Wednesday in southwestern Niger. The statement from the U.S. Africa Command says…
Blast hits convoy traveling between towns of Anefis and Gao in northern Mali, in latest attack against MINUSMA members. At least three United Nations soldiers have been killed and five others seriously wounded by an…