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A French counter-terrorism offensive in rebel-infested northern Mali ended with 11 Islamist militants killed and a French soldier wounded, military sources inside the operation said.
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Militants shelled a camp for French troops and the United Nations MINUSMA peacekeeping force in northeastern Mali, military sources told a news agency on Tuesday, but failed to do any damage.
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French troops killed 19 Islamist militants during an army operation in Mali`s rebel-infested northern desert on Tuesday, a French military source told a news agency.
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A suicide bomber staged a botched attack on foreign forces in northern Mali overnight yesterday, killing himself but causing no other casualties, Malian and French military officials said.
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Col Thierry Burkhard said today that Gilles Le Guen was arrested this week north of Timbuktu, the fabled city which had been his base for some two years.
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French jets on Sunday carried aerial assaults on Islamist militants’ training centres.
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This will be the first such exercise involving armies of the two countries and it will be conducted under the UN mandate.
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