French troops helped the Malian army to push back jihadists from northern Mali in 2013 A senior jihadist leader in Mali has reappeared in a video, months after the authorities said he had been killed.

French troops helped the Malian army to push back jihadists from northern Mali in 2013 One of Mali's top jihadist leaders has been killed in a raid by French forces, the Malian army says. It says ...

NOUAKCHOTT: Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on Tuesday denied that Malian militant leader Amadou Koufa had been killed during a November raid by French forces, according to a statement released by the ...

Prominent jihadist leader Amadou Koufa. Mali’s army said on Saturday it had confirmed the death of Koufa, in a raid by French forces on Thursday night. [Courtesy] Mali’s army said on Saturday it had ...

In an internal note dated 3 February, analysts of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) expressed concern about the emergence in the Nampala region of central Mali of a new jihadist group.

On the night of 22-23 November, French forces operating in Mali’s Mopti region reportedly killed one of the Sahel’s most prominent jihadist leaders, Amadou Koufa. He was a key figure in the growing ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French forces have "put out of action" some 30 Islamist militants, possibly including veteran Malian jihadist leader Amadou Koufa, during a raid in the central Mali region of Mopti, ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday called for heightened efforts to "decapitate" Al-Qaeda-linked groups in the Sahel region, which is struggling with a grinding Islamist insurgency. Speaking ...

In the early 19th century, a Fulani scholar, cleric and trilingual poet named Uthman dan Fodio launched one of West Africa’s earliest jihads. Hurtling camelback and horseback, Dan Fodio and his ...

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's army said on Saturday it had confirmed the death of Amadou Koufa, one of the most prominent jihadist leaders in the country, in a raid by French forces on Thursday night. "I ...