Coordinated attacks by extremists have killed 14 Malian soldiers and wounded nearly a dozen, while #Mali’s forces have killed more than 30 “terrorists,” according to the army.https://t.co/GMw7W2L7gQ
Coordinated attacks by extremists have killed 14 Malian soldiers and wounded nearly a dozen, the army said.
Multiple improvised explosive devices detonated between Dia and Diafarabe villages as well as between Koumara and Macina towns in central Mali, said Col. Souleymane Dembele, the director of public relations for the army, in a statement Wednesday.
During the same attacks, which occurred earlier this week, Mali’s forces killed more than 30 “terrorists,” Dembele said.
The West African nation has been riddled with violence linked to al-Qaeda and the ISIS terrorist group for a decade. Thousands of people have been killed.
Mali’s ruling junta, which seized power in two coups starting in 2020, has been struggling to beat back the extremists, especially since French troops pulled out of the country in August amid frayed relations with the junta. France has been in the region since 2013 when it sent in troops to Mali to push back extremists encroaching on the capital, Bamako, but the extremists have since regrouped.
Since December 2021, the junta has been working with Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group, but the Russians have also been unable to stem the violence. In August, 42 soldiers were killed when their military barracks was attacked.
“Extremists groups continue to wreak havoc in the Sahelian nation despite the junta’s employment of mercenaries to stem the rise of violence. It’s clearly not working,” said Laith Alkhouri, CEO of Intelonyx Intelligence Advisory, which provides intelligence analysis.
“The high casualty count underscores an untiring effort of extremist groups to weaken any remaining resolve of Malian soldiers. If more of these attacks take place, the junta will need to resort to additional security assistance,” he said
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#Tunisia has jailed nine members of an all-women “terrorist” group accused of plotting to assassinate a government minister, according to media reports.https://t.co/6kSQux3tEL
Tunisia has jailed nine members of an all-women “terrorist” group accused of plotting to assassinate a government minister, media reported Thursday.
In the North African nation’s first known case of an all-woman extremist group, two of the ringleaders were jailed for 25 years, while the other seven were handed sentences ranging between three and 14 years. One woman was acquitted.
The sentences were handed out by a court in the capital Tunis on Tuesday, but Tunisia’s prosecution service has no spokesperson and has not responded to journalists for months.
The justice minister declined to give further information on the case.
The case dates back to 2016, when reports appeared on social media of an attempt to assassinate then-interior minister Hedi Majdoub during a visit to his parents – something his office denied.
Private radio station Mosaique FM reported that one of the women lived next door to Majdoub’s parents, and was accused of passing along information about his visits.
Following its 2011 revolt, which overthrew president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and sparked the Arab Spring uprisings, Tunisia experienced a series of extremist attacks that killed dozens of people including numerous security personnel and foreign tourists.
The authorities say they have made major progress against extremists in recent years.
[HodhodYemennews] At least three citizens were maimed on Thursday by Saudi army fire in the border district of Shada in Saada province, northern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... A medical source in Saada confirmed that three maimed people had arrived at Razih Rural Hospital, after they were maimed by Saudi army fire in the Shada district.
The source condemned the Saudi enemy’s continued targeting of border areas and committing crimes against citizens amid the silence of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
[HodhodYemennews] A local official in Ma’rib province told the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i News Agency (Saba) that the detainee Bashir Hussein Aylouq, has been killed as a result of being brutally tortured in the Political Security prison in Ma’rib cityThe official indicated that the dear departed was from al-Jouba district in Ma’rib, and was kidnapped about six months ago with a group of his family members, including women from Wadi Obeida, and that they were prevented from visiting them.
The official denounced the crime of brutal torture to which the detainee was subjected, which led to his death inside the prison.
He pointed out that this crime is not the first, and dozens of killings have been recorded in the coalition forces’ prisons in Ma’rib city.
The official called on human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... and humanitarian organizations to take urgent action to save the lives of the rest of the arrested family members, and to condemn such crimes that are contrary to Islamic principles, as well as international laws and norms.
A non-commissioned officer of the Syrian government forces was killed by unidentified gunmen at a town in the western countryside of #Syria's #Daraa.https://t.co/M2PulsQPdD
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
