Mali News » Kidal News Mali » Kidal » Trade: Kidal falls and Mali’s defense chief killed in coordinated attacks
Coordinated offensives by Tuareg separatists and al-Qaeda-linked militants have killed Mali’s defense minister and forced Malian and Russian troops from the symbolic northern town of Kidal. The ...
News Mali » Kidal » Trade: Rebels jeered Putin’s troops out of a key African town. Now his regional grip is slipping away
When Russian forces withdrew last month from the strategic stronghold of Kidal in northern Mali — retreating under the jeers of the very rebels they were sent to crush — they surrendered more than ...
News Mali » Kidal » Trade: Russia's Africa Corps confirms withdrawal from Mali's Kidal
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOSCOW, April 27 (Reuters) - Africa Corps, a paramilitary group controlled by Russia's Defence Ministry, confirmed on Monday that ...
News Mali » Kidal » Trade: Evening brief: Mali massacre exposes Russia’s Sahel failure as Kidal falls
Mali’s Russian security model cracked in public over the weekend, and it cracked in the exact place Bamako and Moscow could least afford to lose: Kidal. Reuters reported that JNIM, al-Qaeda’s Sahel ...
News Mali » Kidal » Trade: Malian defense chief is killed as jihadis and rebels seize towns and military bases
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Mali ‘s defense minister was killed in a sweeping attack by jihadis and rebels who seized several towns and military bases, authorities said Sunday, the latest violence in the ...
News Mali » Kidal » Trade: Mali's army says it's captured rebel stronghold of Kidal
BAMAKO (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, who ...
News Mali » Kidal » Trade: Mali: Wagner flies flag over Kidal
The video lasts only a few seconds, but it’s enough to see the role played by the Wagner Group in the recapture of Kidal. Published on 22 November on the Russian militia’s Telegram channel, it shows ...
News Mali » Kidal » Trade: Mali troops and Russian mercenaries withdraw from Kidal after coordinated rebel attacks
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Malian troops and Russian mercenaries withdrew from the northern city of Kidal after a series of coordinated attacks across the country by rebel and jihadi forces, the rebels ...