A l-Qaeda affiliate Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is the main group behind a surge in militant jihadist attacks ...

August 2025 makes it five years since Malian soldiers ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in a coup d'état. While the event reshaped Mali's domestic politics, it also marked the beginning of a ...

Mali: Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM Group Targets Multiple Military Sites | Firstpost Africa | N18G A wave of coordinated attacks by ...

M ali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which ...

P Venkataraman, a resident of Odisha's Ganjam district, is among the three Indians abducted by an al-Qaeda linked terrorist ...

Billionaire Elon Musk's satellite internet system has become an increasingly common tool for armed groups to communicate in ...

Meanwhile, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has expressed deep concern over the abduction of three Indian workers from a factory in Mali's Kayes region and urged authorities in the West African ...

The heads of state of West African neighbours, left to right, Mali's Assimi Goita, Niger's Abdourahamane Tchiani and Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traore [Mahamadou/Hamidou/Reuters] ...

West Africa's Brexit moment. Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have severed ties from a key West African bloc. Four things you need to know about what the break means for a region destabilized by coups ...

Col. Assimi Goita meets with a high-level delegation from the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS, at the Ministry of Defense in Bamako, Mali, Aug. 22, 2020. (AP Photo, File) ...

In 2012, jihadists took over Timbuktu — today a small, sunbaked city in northern Mali, but once the most prominent of numerous centers of Islamic learning in pre-colonial West Africa — and ...

The military junta ruling the West African nation of Mali suffered one of its deadliest attacks in years this week, as extremists affiliated with Al Qaeda killed at least 50 members of its armed ...