France pulled the last of its troops out of Mali on Monday, bringing the country's Operation Barkhane to an end. "This day at 1.00 p.m. (1300GMT), the last detachment of the Barkhane force present on ...

“If we withdraw from Mali”, “if the President decided to announce the end of Operation Barkhane”, “if we imagined a scenario in which we had to leave the Gao area”… These days, the French army’s top ...

The French military on Monday confirmed that its last soldier with the Barkhane anti-terror mission in Mali had left the West African country. Paris had announced it ...

As Mali teeters on the edge of collapse with the JNIM's power rising, military fixes have failed without inclusive governance ...

French soldiers from the "Barkhane" operation patrol the streets of Guintou, near Gao, Mali, on December 4, 2021. THOMAS COEX / AFP A planned but silent departure. This seems to have been France’s ...

Macron wants “clear-cut answers”. In Watford, outside London, where he was taking part in a NATO summit on 4 December, the French president declared that extending Operation Barkhane would be ...

Some 5,500 French troops were deployed at the height of the jihadist insurgency President Macron will use a speech in Toulon on Wednesday to bring to an official end France's eight-year anti-jihadist ...

This week, President Emmanuel Macron announced the official end of France's anti-jihadist mission in West Africa - Operation Barkhane. The move was accelerated by a collapse of relations with Mali's ...

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali's foreign affairs ministry said that Chad planned to deploy 1,000 additional soldiers to Mali to reinforce its troops battling insurgents there, as France scales back its ...

Suppose one were to plot out on a map the progress of two jihadist insurgencies in Africa: the Islamic insurgency in the Maghreb and the Boko Haram insurgency. The former... French president Emmanuel ...

GOSSI, Mali (Reuters) - The French soldiers seeking out jihadists in central Mali's savannahs were prepared for the sandstorms, the thunderstorms, the lack of anything resembling a road and the need ...

France is to end its years-long anti-terror mission targeting Islamists in the Sahel region of West Africa, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday ...