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| French, Malian troops kill 30 insurgents in Mali gun battle |
| 2018-04-06 |
| [AlAhram] French and Malian troops killed about 30 Islamist murderous Moslems during a gunbattle in a region near the border with Niger, where Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) gunnies are known to be active, the French army said on Thursday. West Africa's arid Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... has seen a rise in violence by murderous Moslem groups, some with links to al Qaeda and IS, that is drawing an increasingly aggressive response from countries including La Belle France and the United States. It was a Mali-based al Qaeda affiliate, Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Moslemin (JNIM), that grabbed credit for a March 2 assault on the French Embassy and army headquarters in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... 's capital that killed eight people. Colonel Patrik Steiger said soldiers from La Belle France's Barkhane force and Malian troops were on a reconnaissance mission 90 km (56 miles) south of Menaka on Sunday when they encountered several dozen Islamist fighters, some on cycle of violences. A number of Malian soldiers died in the ensuing gunbattle, Steiger said, without giving more details. No French troops were hurt. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 The French have quietly taken on the responsibility to fight jihadis in several of their former colonies. How effective they are, I have no idea, because all I see is occasional reports like these. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-04-06 14:03 |
| #1 [Long Wars] French forces confirm joint operation against Islamic State-loyal militants Earlier today the French military confirmed its forces took part in a large-scale joint operation on April 1 against Islamic State-loyal militants in northern Mali, close to the border with Niger. According to RFI, a French military spokesman said that “French commandos and Malian forces began a ‘reconnaissance and control operation’ in the Akabar region” on March 28, “working in liaison with the Nigerien army and a local self-defense group.” The combined forces came into contact with militants from the so-called Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) on April 1. The following gunfight left at least 30 jihadists dead, according to the French spokesman. The incident was first reported by the Tuareg alliance of the Imghad and Allies Self Defense Movement (GATIA) and the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA), both encompassing the aforementioned “local self-defense group.” In its statement, the alliance confirmed two separate clashes with ISGS militants and that at least 20 jihadists were killed. This is not the first time French special forces have conducted a joint operation with the Tuareg groups against ISGS militants. On Feb. 22, the groups first clashed with the jihadists in a renewed offensive. RFI later reported that French troops coordinated with the Tuaregs in the battle. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-04-06 02:05 |