An Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group said Saturday that its fighters had joined forces with Tuareg rebels to launch attacks against the army across junta-ruled Mali... .
Gunfire rocked several districts of the junta-ruled west African country of Mali on Saturday, including Kati, the home of military ruler General Assimi Goita, witnesses and a security source told AFP... .
The armed group JNIM claimed to have seized two key cities and destroyed the defense minister’s residence in a coordinated offensive that experts said was a major escalation in yearslong hostilities ... .
BAMAKO, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Mali's transitional government said Saturday evening that armed terrorist groups launched coordinated attacks earlier in the day on several cities in the country, leaving 16 people wounded.
Islamic militants and separatists attacked several locations in Mali’s capital and other cities on Saturday, April 25, in one of the largest coordinated attacks in the country in recent years.
The group said only “a small residual pocket of resistance” remained, consisting of Russian mercenaries from the Africa Corps and Malian soldiers entrenched in a former UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, or MINUSMA, camp.
Islamic militants and separatists attacked several locations in Mali’s capital and other cities on Saturday in one of the largest coordinated attacks in the country in recent years ... The airport is adjacent to an airbase used by Mali’s air force.