At dawn on June 1, gunfire shattered the stillness of Mali's military base in Boulkessi. Waves of jihadist insurgents from an al-Qaeda-linked group stormed the camp, catching newly deployed soldiers ...

When Amadou Traoré was posted to an army base in western Mali, his family could take comfort that the soldier was far away ...

Al-Qaeda affiliate Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is the main group behind a surge in militant jihadist attacks ...

The Islamist group JNIM is pushing to assert political dominance in the Sahel region, experts have told Reuters, with a ...