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France formally ends its military intervention in Mali after withdrawing its last remaining troops from a military base in Gao. The base was handed over to Malian Armed Forces before the French forces crossed into neighbouring Niger.
2022-08-15

A French soldier is killed in a mortar attack on a military camp in Gao, northern Mali.
2022-01-23

Rocket attacks are carried out in three northern Malian cities – Gao, Kidal and Ménaka – against French military bases. No one is killed or injured. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claims responsibility for the attacks.
2020-11-30

Gunmen on motorbikes attack a military base in Bamba, Gao, Mali, killing at least 25 soldiers. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
2020-04-6

A Dutch military helicopter serving as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali crashes near Gao, killing two people.
2015-03-17

Insurgents launch an attack on the strategic city of Gao, capturing a police station and sparking a day-long firefight that included Malian troops, as well as French attack helicopters.
2013-02-11

Firefights between Islamists and the Malian Army break out in Gao, Mali.
2013-02-10

The country's first reported suicide bomber blows himself up in Gao, injuring one Malian soldier. In the north, French and Chadian forces retake the city of Tessalit.
2013-02-8

Tuareg rebels seize the town of Gao and the largest military base in Mali amid the ongoing Tuareg Rebellion
2012-04-1

2012 insurgency in northern Mali: Tuareg rebels attack the northern Malian town of Gao, a day after taking the provincial capital Kidal.
2012-03-31