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Contents: France’s new president Macron commits troops to Mali ‘as long as necessary’; UN peacekeeping forces grow as jihadist attacks increase and Mali A riddle

Local officials said a couple accused of adultery in northern Mali was executed in public by stoning on Tuesday for “violating Islamic law.”

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TEL AVIV – After signing an $100,000 deal with Israel, Germany carried out its first successful mission last week in Mali using the Israeli-made Heron 1 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

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A new wave of Christians have been driven from their homes in northern Mali by an upsurge in anti-Christian persecution from Islamic jihadists in the beleaguered West African nation.

The Saharan nation of Burkina Faso was the scene of the latest terrorist hostage crisis, as al-Qaeda fighters staged a hotel raid similar to the November attack in Mali. This time, the death toll included 28 people from 18 different countries, plus 50 civilians wounded, and 156 hostages freed.

TEL AVIV – Mokhtar Belmokhtar, leader of Al Murabitoon, an al-Qaeda affiliate operating in West Africa, is thought to be behind the deadly assault on the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali on Friday.

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The terrorist attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali (a former French colony) offers another grim reminder to those in the West of the wide and lethal reach of practitioners of radical Islamic extremism, notwithstanding recent claims to the contrary of U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Contents: Terror groups compete for credit for Mali hotel attack; Mali hotel terror attack highlights al-Qaeda’s strength in Africa

An Israeli man was among the 20 people murdered in a terror attack at the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali’s capital of Bamako on Friday, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Saturday. He was identified as Samuel Benalal, 58, from Tzur

Al-Qaeda has released this statement in regards to the hotel attack in Mali at the Radisson Blu.

A siege in which gunmen took as many as 170 hostages, killing an estimated 27, at the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali’s capital Bamako has ended. The gunmen, who were originally reported to be releasing people able to recite verses from the

Officials in Mali ended a 24-hour hostage situation at the Byblos Hotel in Sevare, which left 12 people dead over the weekend. Suspected radical Islamists attacked the hotel on Friday.

Radical Islamists elsewhere are taking a page out of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) playbook. Jihadists demolished a mausoleum in Mali that was recently submitted to the United Nations World Heritage site.

(Reuters) – French forces in northern Mali have killed around a dozen Islamist militants in the region of the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains, France’s defense ministry said on Monday.

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After a coordinated three-day rampage on the town of Baga in northeast Nigeria, as well 15-20 other nearby towns, up to 2000 resident civilians have been killed.