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Mali rebels say they have taken base vacated by UN peacekeepers
Reuters via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMali's northern Tuareg rebels said they had seized a base in Kidal vacated by the United Nations on...
Kidal mayor says 14 people dead in northern Mali after series of drone strikes near rebel stronghold
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA series of drone strikes around the town of Kidal in northern Mali have killed at least 14 people in the rebel stronghold, the town's mayor said Tuesday. Kidal Mayor Arbakane Ag Abzayack told ...
UN retreat from Mali in disarray as violence surges
Reuters via AOL· 7 months agoBefore United Nations peacekeepers hurriedly abandoned their base in Kidal in northern Mali on Tuesday, they made a costly call: with insurgents stationed nearby, they destroyed sensitive equipment ...
Wagner-Backed Mali Forces Win Decade-Long Fight for Rebel Base
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 7 months ago(Bloomberg) -- Mali’s army, which is backed by Russian mercenaries, recaptured a northern town...
Mali's leader says military has seized control of a rebel stronghold in the country's north
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMali's military has seized control of the northern town of Kidal, marking the first time the army has held the Tuareg rebel stronghold in nearly a decade, state broadcaster ORTM reported Tuesday ...
Mali's army says it's captured rebel stronghold of Kidal
Reuters via Yahoo News· 7 months agoBAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali's army said on Tuesday it had taken the northern rebel stronghold of Kidal after carrying out a raid that inflicted heavy losses on armed insurgents. Ethnic Tuareg rebels ...
Mali drone strikes kill civilians in town of Kidal, officials and rebels say
Reuters via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAt least 12 civilians were killed by drone strikes around the town of Kidal in northern Mali on Tuesday, including on a base vacated days earlier by a United Nations peacekeeping mission, a ...
U.N. peacekeepers in Mali withdraw from two bases in the north as fighting intensifies
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoUnited Nations peacekeepers started departing from two bases in northern Mali Monday as part of a...
New clashes erupt between the Malian military and separatist rebels as a security crisis deepens
Associated Press via AOL· 8 months agoNew fighting erupted between the Malian military and armed rebel groups in an area south of Kidal late Friday, with both sides claiming to control the town of Anefis as night fell. The armed ...
15 UN peacekeepers in a convoy withdrawing from northern Mali were injured by 2 explosive devices
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFifteen U.N. peacekeepers in a convoy withdrawing from a rebel stronghold in northern Mali were injured when vehicles hit improvised explosive devices on two occasions this week, the United ...