Photo taken on August 7, 2012 shows fighters of the Islamic group Ansar Dine standing guard at the Kidal Airport in northern Mali. Mali's government said on August 9 that military intervention in the ...

All eyes are on Mali now as French and African forces attempt to force back the al-Qaeda linked terrorist group that overtook Northern Mali last year. A critical intervention is underway; France sent ...

TOPSHOTS A French soldier drives an armoured vehicle on February 17, 2013 in the desert near Bourem, northern Mali. A French-led military intervention launched on January 11 has driven the Islamist ...

TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — In a new phase of the Mali conflict, French airstrikes targeted the fuel depots and desert hideouts of Islamic extremists in northern Mali overnight Monday, as French forces ...

PARIS (AP) — French troops in Mali have arrested a French citizen who converted to Islam, took on the jihadist cause and threatened his native country in a video last fall, the military spokesman said ...