Dozens of Wagner mercenaries were killed and a Russian helicopter was destroyed in an ambush by al-Qaeda-allied rebels in ...
More than 50 people were killed near Mali's northeastern city of Gao on Friday after armed assailants ambushed their convoy and its army escort, a local official and residents said.
The bodies of 11 Nigerien soldiers missing since Tuesday's ambush have been discovered ... They are most active in neighbouring Mali, where French troops intervened in 2013 to prevent them ...
The presence of the Wagner group has long been a controversial one. Mali's junta, which seized power in coups in 2020 and 2021, teamed up with Wagner that second year. Al-Jazeera has reported the ...