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Paris, Feb 7, 2020 - French forces have put 30 jihadists "out of action" during Mali operations in a zone bordering Burkina Faso and Niger, a military spokesman said Friday. Colonel Frederic Barbry said an armed drone, a Mirage 2000 jet and two helicopters had...

Bamako, Feb 7, 2020 - Malian troops are due to redeploy before February 10 to the northern town of Kidal, long a symbol of the government's lack of control over the strife-torn north. Rebels captured much of the West African state's north in 2012, triggering a war...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday called on Tunisia to bring home nearly 200 children of suspected jihadists stranded or held in crowded camps and prisons in Libya, Iraq and Syria. The New York-based rights watchdog welcomed Tunisia's repatriation last month of six...

Fnideq, Morocco, Feb 7, 2020 (Hamza Mekouar) - Mustapha left his home in Guinea two years ago to make the arduous journey to Morocco, hoping to cross the fence separating the kingdom from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. "We're going to cross this barrier," he told AFP,...