french intervention in mali

Heavy gunfire erupted Sunday in Timbuktu as Malian troops were combing the city for infiltrated jihadists following a suicide attack,…

French forces in Mali have killed Abdelhamid Abu Zeid, a leading field commander of Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing AQIM, Algerian…

President Mohamed Morsy opposes France’s intervention in Mali even though the campaign, which seeks to restore the Malian government’s control…

DAKAR –– Senegal has detained a Mauritanian and a Malian for suspected terrorist links, its government said on Friday, and…

Leaders of Islamic states called for a peaceful resolution to the Syrian conflict through "serious dialogue" between the regime and…

PARIS — Thirty French warplanes on Sunday blasted Islamic extremist training and logistics centres in northeast Mali, just hours after…

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Thursday backed the idea of sending a United Nations peacekeeping force into Mali,…

French-backed Malian troops searched house-to-house in Gao and Timbuktu on Tuesday uncovering arms and explosives abandoned by Islamist fighters, and…

PARIS — France is keeping a tight lid on media reporting on the conflict in northern Mali, where foreign journalists…

Outgoing African Union chairman Thomas Boni Yayi told African leaders Sunday their response to the conflict in Mali had been…