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Insurgents withdraw from strategic north Mali town after days of fighting
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (281+ words) BAMAKO, July 10 (Reuters) – A Tuareg-led separatist group has begun withdrawing from Mali’s strategic northern town of Anefis after armed forces including members of Russia’s paramilitary Africa Corps pushed them out, a rebel spokesperson and the army said on Friday. • The…...
Convoy carrying Russian fighters attacked in Mali, sources say
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (251+ words) DAKAR, July 9 (Reuters) – A convoy carrying Malian soldiers and fighters from the Russian paramilitary Africa Corps came under attack in northern Mali on Thursday, three security sources and a spokesperson for an armed group said. One of the sources said…...
Morocco prevents attacks by cell loyal to Islamic State in Sahel
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (255+ words) RABAT, July 6 (Reuters) – Morocco’s counterterrorism agency said on Monday it had foiled attack plots targeting sensitive sites and public security by a cell loyal to Islamic State’s affiliate in the Sahel. Ten suspects were arrested in coordinated operations in the…...
Insurgents attack multiple towns in northern and central Mali, sources say
1+ week, 1+ day ago (197+ words) BAMAKO, July 4 (Reuters) – A Tuareg-led insurgent group said on Saturday it had attacked a town in northern Mali where government troops and Russian paramilitary forces are based, and residents of two other localities in northern and central Mali reported hearing…...
HAMZA ‘THE TAXMAN’: 14-Year-Old Algerian Boy With a Water Gun Is Bringing Mayhem to Paris, Has Been Arrested Twice in a Week * The Gateway Pundit * by Paul Serran
1+ week, 2+ day ago (35+ words) Soak it in, France....
Clashes Linked to a Land Dispute Kill 18 in North-central Nigeria, Police Say
1+ week, 3+ day ago (176+ words) DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN Thursday, 02 July 2026 02:00 PM EDT The killings occurred in the Rafi area of Niger State between Monday and Wednesday and involved gun attacks and arson, police spokesperson Wasiu Abiodun said in a statement. Abiodun said two people were killed…...
Attack kills 20 in Nigeria’s central Plateau attack
2+ week, 5+ day ago (156+ words) KANO, Nigeria, June 23 (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria’s central Plateau state said on Tuesday that 20 people had been killed in a weekend attack on a community in Bokkos district, the latest in a region plagued by communal attacks despite repeated security…...
Rivals in Terror: How JNIM and ISSP Are Spreading the Sahel Islamist Insurgency Across West Africa * The Gateway Pundit * by Antonio Graceffo
2+ week, 6+ day ago (774+ words) As two rival jihadist organizations, the al-Qaeda-linked JNIM and the Islamic State's Sahel Province, compete for dominance across the Sahel, their parallel…...
Al Qaeda-linked militants curb their brutality in seized Malian territory
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1589+ words) By Robbie Corey-Boulet, David Lewis and Portia Crowe DAKAR, June 13 (Reuters) – The meetings have become routine. Every few months, jihadists in Mali affiliated with al Qaeda summon the men of Poutchi to a mud-brick mosque to collect tax on their…...