Several hundred soldiers from West African countries - including Niger and Chad - are already in Mali. Our correspondent says French forces who entered Kidal found members of the secular National ...

The fatalities came as French forces renewed pressure on al Qaeda’s Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) in northern Mali. French military sources told AFP the troops were conducting a patrol ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries ... States to pool their military and diplomatic forces.

The announcement comes as most West African nations are rethinking their relationship with France, which is losing its clout in the region. Following the military coups, Burkina Faso and Mali dropped ...

Operation Serval swept Ansar al-Din, along with its allies, out of northern Mali’s cities but it remained active. Kidal and its surrounding region, up to the border with Algeria, remained a centre of ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step. In a letter seen by The Associated Press on ...

Ivorian soldiers conduct an urban reconnaissance exercise under the supervision of French special forces at Camp Loumbila ... nations — including coup-hit Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger ...