At least seven mercenaries from Russia's Wagner private military contractor group were killed in an attack in central Mali that was claimed by an affiliate of al Qaeda in North Africa, Site ...
In July, Wagner suffered heavy casualties during clashes with predominantly Tuareg rebels and Islamist groups near Mali's border with Algeria. That confrontation exposed the perilous nature of ...
There have been two dozen incidents linked to militants within about 30 miles of Mali’s borders with Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal and Mauritania in the past year — after virtually no such ...