Twelve soldiers are killed during an attack by JNIM gunmen against a military base in Kpékankandi, Togo. Forty attackers are neutralized. 2024-07-20
Malian Air Force jets bomb the town of Anefif, attempting to strike Coordination of Azawad Movements troops, but miss. 2023-08-28
Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop requests the United Nations Security Council to terminate its peacekeeping mission in the country immediately, citing its "failure" to help improve the situation. 2023-06-16
The village of Tidermène is captured by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara. 2023-04-12
Eight people, including five park rangers and a soldier are killed by land mines in the W National Park in Benin. 2022-02-8
Mali recruits Russia's PMC Wagner Group to fight Islamic terrorism in the country, according to a news outlet citing Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. 2021-09-25
A report by the United Nations mission in Mali concludes that an airstrike conducted by France in Mopti on January 3 killed 19 civilians at a wedding. The French military maintains that it had killed rebel fighters identified by aerial surveillance, and denies that a wedding had taken place in Bounti. 2021-03-30
Three Ivorian UN peacekeepers are killed and six others wounded in a jihadist ambush on their vehicle in central Mali. 2021-01-13