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Three French Army troops are killed when their armoured personnel carrier hits a roadside bomb in Hombori, Mali.
2020-12-28

The office of French President Emmanuel Macron says that a French soldier was killed during operations against militants in Mali. According to the press release, the soldier died when his armored vehicle was hit by an IED.
2020-07-23

France's defense ministry reports its first armed drone strike. On Saturday, a Reaper drone strike killed seven in central Mali.
2019-12-23

Mali returns two people France deported on the same planes they arrived on.
2016-12-30

French and Malian troops retake Diabaly and Douentza as Islamist forces retreat.
2013-01-21

Suspected Islamic militants take over a BP facility in In Aménas, Algeria, killing at least 2 workers and taking up to 40 others hostage, including 13 Norwegians, a number of Americans, as well as nationals from Ireland, Japan, France and the United Kingdom. A previously unknown group allied to al-Qaeda's regional branch says the attack is in revenge for Algeria's support of the French operation against Islamic rebels in Mali.
2013-01-16

African troops are to be deployed in Mali to fight alongside French and Malian soldiers within a week.
2013-01-15

French authorities seek to make contact with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb over the kidnapping of five French nationals and two others in Niger, now believed to have been taken to northern Mali.
2010-09-23

The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy confirms that Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb has executed Michel Germaneau, a French hostage taken in Mali.
2010-07-26