Sources: Xinhua
The Tuareg-led Azawad Liberation Front releases 22 Malian soldiers, some held for more than three years, in exchange for at least eight of its fighters and several civilian detainees. 2026-08-23
Tuareg separatist Azawad Liberation Front releases six wounded Malian troops. 2026-08-16
Niger announces that the Alliance of Sahel States conducted airstrikes in Mali against Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists and Tuareg separatists hours after the attacks began. 2026-04-30
SITE Intelligence Group says that the Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM and Tuareg-dominated rebel group FLA has claimed full responsibility for the attacks. 2026-04-25
The Tuareg independence movement accuses Malian soldiers and Wagner Group mercenaries of killing 24 civilians, which constitutes a war crime. 2025-02-22
Tuareg fighters from the Platform coalition of rebels capture the town of Bourem from Malian forces, bringing an end to the 2015 peace treaty between the rebels and the Malian government. 2023-09-12
The Coordination of Azawad Movements, a coalition of Tuareg groups, announce that they will boycott a peace conference scheduled next week on implementing a 2015 peace agreement saying it was "not sufficiently inclusive". 2017-03-25
The government of Mali opens talks with Tuareg separatists in the hopes of reaching a ceasefire agreement. 2013-06-8
Tuareg separatists in Northern Mali mark the one year anniversary since the founding of the unilaterally declared Azawad. 2013-04-6
The Malian army used artillery on Islamist rebels in Gnimignama in the first skirmish between the two belligerents since April 2012, when Islamist and Tuareg rebels first assumed control of the region. 2013-01-8