DAKAR (Reuters) -Niger has accepted that French and European special forces will cross into its territory from neighbouring Mali to combat jihadists and try to secure the border with the West African ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A French soldier was killed in Mali on Thursday morning after combat operations against militants, President Emmanuel Macron's office said. "This soldier ... was killed in fighting ...

PARIS (AP) — A French soldier has died in some of the most intense fighting thus far in the seven-week-old military campaign to push back a jihadist advance in Mali, officials said Sunday. Parachutist ...

Fighters from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara fire on French troops in northern Mali, as seen in the Amaq video. The Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency, one of the jihadist group’s official ...

Russia welcomed Mali's efforts in the fight against rebel movements and expressed strong support for these efforts HARARE, October 6. /TASS/. Mali and Russia expressed their commitment to combat ...

NICOSIA (Reuters) - The European Union is looking at how it can help Mali combat an Islamist rebel takeover in the country's north after receiving a plea for assistance ranging from military training ...

Mali's ruling junta on Monday announced the delivery of two more combat helicopters and surveillance radars from Russia as the West African nation tackles a bloody jihadist insurgency. Photographs of ...

(AP) French troops pressed northward in Mali toward territory occupied by radical Islamists on Wednesday, military officials said, announcing the start of a land assault that will put soldiers in ...

Berlin is playing an increasingly aggressive role in NATO’s proxy war against Russia. Almost daily, the federal government announces new sanctions against Moscow and the delivery of more heavy weapons ...