After years of operating in Mali, the Wagner Group has abruptly declared victory and exited the country amid escalating violence from jihadist insurgents. Far from a clean success, their departure ...

Mali’s military government has passed a bill extending junta leader Gen. Assimi Goita’s reign for five more years, starting in 2025. Goita seized power in two coups in 2020 and 2021. This ...

The Kremlin-backed Africa Corps is expected to take over security responsibilities, indicating Moscow’s long-term interest in ...

Russia’s Wagner paramilitary said it would cease operations against Islamic extremists in Mali, although Moscow will retain a ...

BAMAKO, Mali — A leading political activist whose family said that he was abducted by Mali’s military authorities has been ...

The Russian paramilitary group Wagner has left Mali and its units there have been taken over by the Moscow-run Africa Corps, ...

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the ...

The Russia-backed Wagner Group said Friday it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country.

Mali denies the drone crossed the border, and the three-country bloc — the Alliance of Sahel States or AES — called the downing an “irresponsible act” that violated international law.

Some 1,500 French troops were in Niger providing training and on-the-ground military support to the local military in the fight against jihadi violence across the Sahel. READ MORE Can Azawad ...