France has restructured its military presence in recent months, closing most of its historic bases in West Africa. However, ...

Mali’s ruling military junta on Tuesday dissolved all political parties and banned political gatherings, intensifying its grip on power amid growing opposition. Opposition groups, fearing the move, ...

Elected in May, after succeeding his father in 2021, the 40-year-old general was France's last ally in the Sahel after the French army was ousted from Mali, Burkina Faso and then Niger by the ...

(French Army via AP, File) (Uncredited) DAKAR – Mali's army together with suspected mercenaries from the shadowy Russian group Wagner have committed summary executions, lootings, forced ...

PARIS – A French military force tried to use a journalist’s visit to northern Mali to track a jihadist ... An internal army probe found in late 2021 that there had been “no personal fault ...

An internal army probe found in late 2021 that ... the information about the risk he was taking," he said. French forces withdrew from Mali last year following a fallout with the ruling junta.

In addition, the various battalion-sized task forces that the French deployed to Mali consisted of bits and pieces taken from numerous regiments that were part of numerous brigades. Schill reckoned ...

The last French troops have left Mali after an almost 10-year presence. It has had some 5,000 soldiers in the region since 2013 to fight against Islamist insurgents. The last French army unit left ...

In a statement, the French army said on Monday it had met the ... force still on Malian territory crossed the border between Mali and Niger,” the French military statement said, using the ...

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