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 ...

BAMAKO, Nov 14 (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 ...

An aerial view of the rebel-held city of Kidal, where Mali's army is reported to be closing in - Copyright AFP/File SOULEYMANE AG ANARA An aerial view of the rebel ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s army and Russian mercenaries killed dozens of civilians during a military operation last month in northern Mali, civil organization and community members alleged Friday, ...

Mali's military has seized control of the northern town of Kidal, marking the first time the army has held the Tuareg rebel stronghold in nearly a decade, state broadcaster ORTM reported Tuesday.

FILE - United Nations peacekeepers stand guard at the entrance to a polling station covered in separatist flags and graffiti supporting the creation of the independent state of Azawad, in Kidal, Mali ...

KIDAL, Mali, May 17 (Reuters) - A gunbattle erupted between the Malian army and MNLA Tuareg separatists in the northern city of Kidal on Saturday shortly before a visit by the prime minister, an army ...

Speaking to the UN on Friday, Mali’s prime minister said his country and its allies, Burkina Faso and Niger, would stand ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Islamic extremists clashed with military in Mali’s northern city of Gao, a military official said Thursday, as French forces continued their push to eliminate remnants of ...

The Malian army on Thursday returned to Kidal, a former rebel-held town that had become a symbol of the country's strife-torn north, commanders there said. Kidal, a former rebel-held town, had become ...

A week after entering the stronghold of the independence rebels, Russian mercenaries flew their black flag over Kidal’s fort, in a symbolic act that contradicts the official discourse of Colonel Goïta ...