“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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AGADIR, Morocco — When thousands of troops from the United States, Africa and Europe trained together here this month, one nation was notably absent: France. The former colonial power has for years ...

A French soldier was killed and a U.S. service member was wounded by mortar shelling on a base in Mali on Sunday, according to U.S. Africa Command and the French military. The U.S. service member ...