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Islamist rebels who attacked the northern Malian town of Gao were repelled after fierce fighting Saturday.

A French businessman captured in Mali in 2011 was executed in retaliation for France’s Mali offensive, ANI reported Tuesday.

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Chadian officials say Mokhtar Belmokhtar and Abdelhamid Abou Zeid are dead. But even if it's true, regional turmoil is far from over.

As their third soldier has been reported dead in Mali, the French have published a video showing a firefight with Islamists.

Mokhtar Belmokhtar, presumed masterminded of the attack on an Algerian gas complex, has been killed in Mali, Chad’s armed forces say.

A French military intervention in Mali has reached its final stages, but the crisis is far from over.

The continuing violence in Mali has disrupted access to education for hundreds of thousands of children in the region.

A French family of seven was kidnapped by vacationing in Cameroon. According to reports, Islamist militants are believed to be behind the kidnapping of the family.

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A heavy firefight marked the first retaliatory attack launched by the rebels on a territory captured by the French-led forces.

A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up at a Malian government military checkpost in the northern city of Gao Friday, the first reported case of suicide bombing ever since the French-led military cracked down on insurgents in Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal.

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