Stash of weapons, rocket rattle Mali town of Gao
Soldiers combing abandoned jihadist hideouts and sand-dusted streets for weapons have found industrial-strength explosives, raising the specter ...
Report: French may start leaving Mali in March
French troops may start pulling out of their anti-extremist operation in Mali as early as next month, handing over to a still-developing African force
International officials discuss UN force for Mali
International officials said Tuesday they are discussing the possibility of using a U.N. force to provide long-term security in the troubled African ...
Algerian border forces get shoot-on-sight orders
A high-ranking Algerian security official says troops guarding the country's border with Mali have been given shoot-on-sight orders against anyone who ...
For Mali amputee, Islamic extremist legacy lingers
The Islamic extremists in Mali came to Issa Alzouma's cell and brought him out to the public square they had renamed Place de Shariah. They laid him ...
France: 4 detained suspected of extremist links
French authorities detained four people Tuesday in a counterterrorism operation targeting those suspected of trying to join Islamist extremists abroad
Tuareg rebels in Mali arrest Islamist extremists
Secular rebels from Mali's Tuareg people say they have arrested two Islamist extremists, including the man blamed for enforcing stoning deaths and ...
People of Timbuktu save manuscripts from invaders
For eight days after the Islamists set fire to one of the world's most precious collections of ancient manuscripts, the alarm inside the building ...
French troops to quit Timbuktu this week
In a new phase of the Mali conflict, French airstrikes targeted the fuel depots and desert hideouts of Islamic extremists in northern Mali overnight ...
Heading home to Timbuktu: New freedoms, tensions
Not a single light could be seen in my hometown of Timbuktu as we approached it at night just days after it was liberated from the al-Qaida-linked ...
French forces launch airstrikes in northern Mali
French troops launched airstrikes on Islamic militant training camps and arms depots around Kidal and Tessalit in Mali's far north, defense officials ...
French president visits Mali to cheers of support
French President Francois Hollande bathed in the cheers and accolades of the thousands of people of this embattled city on Saturday, making a ...
Syrian opposition: willing to meet with regime
Syria's top opposition leader said Friday that he was willing to sit down for talks with President Bashar Assad's government to "ease the pain of the ...
Arabs, Tuaregs in Mali face hostility amid war
Bawba Mint Baba Ahmed's dress-making teacher singled her out in front of the class, telling her: "You look like a rebel." Others threatened to slit ...
Mali jihadists in custody say tortured by military
Three suspected jihadists arrested in the days since the liberation of Timbuktu said Friday that Malian soldiers were torturing them with a method ...
French leader to visit Mali, talk of troop levels
President Francois Hollande says he'll suggest when France will reduce troop levels in Mali during a trip there Saturday, nearly four weeks after a ...
US limited in fight against North Africa militants
The United States is struggling to confront an uptick in threats from the world's newest jihadist hot spot with limited intelligence and few partners ...
Freedom returns to the storied city of Timbuktu
On the morning French commandos parachuted onto the sand just north of this storied city and ended 10 months of Islamic rule, Hawi Traore folded up ...
Timbuktu revels in new freedom but fears linger
A leaflet listing the regulations for women under Islamist rule now lies in dirt here at the tribunal in Timbuktu. Rule No. 1: The veil should cover ...
French capture Islamists' last major Malian town
French forces met no resistance Wednesday in Kidal, the Islamists' last major town, as the two-week-old mission scored another success in its effort ...
Timbuktu manuscripts mostly safe, university says
Islamist extremists damaged or stole only a limited number of manuscripts in Timbuktu in Mali before they fled the fabled desert city, a South African ...
France takes key Mali cities; now the hard part
French-led forces have wrested control of three key cities in northern Mali from al-Qaida-linked militants, but the fighters have escaped with their ...
US eyes drone base in Africa with al-Qaida in mind
Plans to base unarmed American surveillance drones in the African nation of Niger highlight the Obama administration's growing concern about extremist ...
In recaptured city in Mali, Islamists hunted down
Residents in Mali's newly liberated city of Gao hunted down and beat suspected Islamist extremists who had not fled with their brothers-in-arms as ...
Official: US may set up drone base in Niger
The Pentagon is moving toward setting up a military base in northwest Africa from which to operate surveillance drones to collect intelligence on ...
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