Mali gunman kills 3 at aid distribution point
A suspected jihadist opened fire on a crowd at an aid distribution point in a north Malian village, killing three civilians, a local official said.
Suicide bombers launch attacks in 2 Mali towns
Five suicide bombers carried out two simultaneous attacks on soldiers in Mali on Friday in another indication of the growing coordination of ...

NJ vet gets back dog tag he lost in World War II
Carol Wilkins leaned over the side of her father's wheelchair and handed him the small red box, a heart-shaped cutout revealing its contents: a ...

France: jihadist convert arrested in Mali
French troops in Mali have arrested a French citizen who converted to Islam, took on the jihadist cause and threatened his native country in a video ...
UN approves peacekeeping force for Mali
The Security Council unanimously approved a new U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali on Thursday to help restore democracy and stabilize the northern half ...

A century after WWI, a dead soldier unites
When Didier Guerle fulfilled his grandfather's dying wish and had the fields of his farm searched, he set off a chain of events that brought people ...

Limping al-Qaida offshoot rearms with Twitter
Battered by a French-led military campaign in Mali, al-Qaida's North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. The PR campaign ...
Report: Ansar Dine spokesman seeks surrender
A spokesman for an al-Qaida-linked group in northern Mali wants to surrender and be extradited to face trial in his home country of Mauritania, ...

Chad's leader: Troops to leave Mali guerrilla war
The war against armed Islamic extremists in Mali will lose some 2,000 Chadian soldiers, the president of Chad said, leaving Malian cities more ...

EU mission trains troops in Mali
In preparation for a drawdown of French troops from Mali, a European Union team started training Malian soldiers for battle against jihadists who ...

Al-Qaida takes responsibility for Timbuktu attack
Al-Qaida's local chapter took responsibility for an attack on Timbuktu this weekend, as French and Malian forces Monday continued to hunt down the ...

Islamic extremists attack Timbuktu in north Mali
Timbuktu has been hit by a prolonged battle between Islamic extremists and the Malian and French armies, residents and a Malian military spokesman ...

C. African Republic president overthrown by rebels
Rebels overthrew Central African Republic's president of a decade on Sunday, seizing the presidential palace and declaring that the desperately poor ...
Radical Islamists attack Malian city of Gao
Islamic extremists infiltrated and attacked the northern Malian city of Gao, the mayor and residents said late Saturday. It was the third major attack ...

France confirms death of Al-Qaida chief Abou Zeid
The death of a top al-Qaida-linked warlord in combat with French-led troops represents a victory in the battle against jihadists who had a ...
Mali army: Suicide bomber kills 1 in Timbuktu
A suicide car bomber killed a soldier near Timbuktu's airport, officials said Thursday, the first such attack in the fabled city where French forces ...

French tally toll as defense minister visits Mali
France's defense minister made a surprise visit to Mali on Thursday to see French troops fighting extremists there, as military officials said at ...

France: Key al-Qaida chief in Mali likely killed
France said Monday for the first time that a key al-Qaida leader in Mali is probably dead. An activist close to the terror network's north Africa ...

3rd French soldier killed in Mali combat
A French soldier has died in some of the most intense fighting thus far in the seven-week-old military campaign to push back a jihadist advance in ...

Head of Chadian army claims troops kill Belmoktar
Chad's military chief announced late Saturday that his troops deployed in northern Mali had killed Moktar Belmoktar, the terrorist who orchestrated ...

Chad's president: Al-Qaida chief killed in Mali
Chadian President Idriss Deby announced Friday that Chadian troops fighting to dislodge an al-Qaida affiliate in northern Mali killed one of the ...

Officials: France in Mali until July or later
French troops will stay in the West African country of Mali at least until July, amid tougher-than-expected resistance from Islamic fighters, ...

Mali: 6 killed in bomb as fighting rages in north
A suicide car bombing killed six government allies in the northern city of Kidal, as French confirm that they are engaged in heavy fighting in ...