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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...