“If we withdraw from Mali”, “if the President decided to announce the end of Operation Barkhane”, “if we imagined a scenario in which we had to leave the Gao area”… These days, the French army’s top ...

The ambush, which involved a car bomb explosion followed by gunfire, took place two days after militants killed at least six ...

Relations between Paris and Bamako have become strained, as the two governments continue to clash on more and more issues. Mali’s prime minister has publicly accused France of turning its back on Mali ...

Over the past seven years, France’s Barkhane counterinsurgency operation in the Sahel has weathered terrorist attacks, flagging political support from its African allies, and growing popular protests ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PARIS (AP) — Two members of a French counter-terrorism force in Mali were killed on Wednesday when their armored vehicle was hit ...

A French soldier has died after a rocket attack on the French army base in Gao, Mali. The French Armed Forces Ministry released a statement Sunday morning saying the attack occurred on the Gao, Mali, ...

Three Red Cross workers who were kidnapped Saturday by Islamist militants in northern Mali were released today, after a week of rising tensions in the region — and in the meantime, civilians in the ...

Nouakchott — A multi-national military initiative took out some two dozen terrorists in Mali's Kidal region on Friday (November 7th). The latest action came as part of Operation Barkhane. Military ...