As Islamist militants spread south, group leaders have made clear their fight is with Mali’s government — and the Wagner ...

Almost 5,000 French troops are deployed in the Sahel region to combat Islamist insurgencies as part of Operation Barkhane, with around 2,400 of those located at three bases in northern Mali.

The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data ... which is closely associated with separatist movements in northern Mali, have not been spared from these reprisals either. The day after the attacks ...

Violence, conflict, and crime have surged over ... The influx of extremists into northern Mali reignited the dormant Tuareg rebellion [PDF] in 2012, which had previously surfaced in ...

"We don't accept this kind of Islamic culture with jihadi ideas so this creates another conflict." Every story we heard in northern Mali was a tale of multiple threats, all terribly tangled.

And it has also helped to placate Tuareg-led rebels in northern Mali ... out by Wagner and Mali's military during that period, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data ...

For the United States and its NATO allies, Russia's actions present an opportunity to recalibrate their approach—not just to ...

Armed rebel groups doubled their territory in northern Mali in 2023, leaving the country ... The impact of this multifaceted regional conflict on the local population is predictably devastating.

For centuries, its northern city of Timbuktu was a center for commerce, culture and learning. But after its conquest, then independence from France, Mali has suffered devastating droughts, political ...

Sir Keir Starmer ’s new national security adviser wrote an article a year ago in which he recommended a “more relaxed ...

ROME, Oct 31 — UN food agencies warned today of deadly hunger levels in 16 “hunger hotspots” in coming months, with the ...

He was intimately involved in much of what New Labour did, and, since he left full-time official duties, has worked in ...