"The rise of junta rule in the Sahel represents a complex interplay between decolonization and destabilization." ...

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texan who once served in Afghanistan, had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, but acted alone in the attack that killed at least 14 people, the FBI said. Texas ...

Map of al Qaeda-linked attacks in Mali and Niger since 2014. Map made by Caleb Weiss for The Long War Journal. Jihadists in Mali have attacked two towns in the last 24 hours, leaving at least four ...

Russia has moved heavy military equipment from Syria to Mali, as revealed by the local television channel Cap Mali+. The footage shows transports carrying T-72B3 tanks, BMD infantry fighting vehicles, ...

French officials were concerned that their involvement in Mali would lead to the execution of Allex. Shabaab repelled the raid and killed one French soldier and captured another. Bill Roggio is a ...

In this context, the Libyan civil war and the chaotic fall of Moammar Gadhafi ... returned to their home countries — for many, Mali — bringing with them an extensive arsenal of weaponry ...

Tombs at the Djingareyber mosque in Timbuktu were smashed by Islamist militants in 2012 The International Criminal Court in the Hague has taken into custody a man wanted for war crimes in Mali ...

In December, Human Rights Watch said Mali's armed forces, supported by Wagner, and Islamist armed groups had committed serious abuses against civilians in violation of the laws of the war.

But most of his 18 charges focused on other war crimes, including murder, torture and the conscription of child soldiers ... Al Hassan is the second person to be charged with crimes relating to the ...

has been a frontline in the war against Islamist militancy for almost a decade. Later this year, 250 British soldiers will join a UN mission in Mali. It has been described as the most dangerous ...

The International Criminal Court sentenced an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for war crimes and crimes ... west African country of Mali. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul ...