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French court jails for life sole surviving Paris 2015 attackerSalah Abdeslam was sentenced to a full-life term, which offers only a small chance of parole after 30 years. Such sentences have been prono...- Algeria bans French military planes from airspace: French armyFrance's jets regularly fly over Algerian territory to reach the Sahel region of western Africa, where its soldiers are helping to battle j...
- Islamic State group menace rebounds in AfghanistanMore than 100 Afghan civilians and 13 US servicemen were killed in the August 26 attack on Kabul airport -- the deadliest violence against ...
- Norway joins anti-jihadist taskforce in MaliA member of NATO but not the EU, Norway will become the ninth country to take part in Takuba, an operation that aims to play a central role...
- Two Mali soldiers die in suspected jihadist ambush"Two of our men were killed by terrorists on Saturday night in an attack on one of our checkpoints, 60 kilometres (40 miles) southwest of G...
- Mozambique urged to use force wisely, aid and dialogue to tackle insurgency"There needs to be an appropriate level of military support to pressure this group... to consider surrendering, but also to offer them a pa...
- Anti-terror "academy" set up in Ivory CoastIvorian Prime Minister Patrick Achi and his defence minister, Tene Birahima Ouattara, were joined by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le D...
- The Sahel's intractable conflictFighting in the vast semi-arid region began in 2012, when Islamist militants joined a local insurgency in northern Mali, capturing swathes ...
- With military victory elusive, West African nations quietly back talks with IslamistsFor a decade, West African armies and their international allies have fought against militant groups active in the Sahel region, some linke...
- French military suspension in Mali hits a struggling armyThe defence ministry in Paris last week announced a "temporary" suspension in military advice and joint operations pending "guarantees" tha...
- At least 160 killed in deadliest Burkina Faso attack since 2015The slaughter in the early hours of Saturday followed the slaying of 14 people late Friday in the village of Tadaryat in the same region, w...
- Burkina Faso govt says at least 100 civilians die in attackThe attack took place Friday evening in Solhan village, in the Sahel's Yagha province, government spokesman Ousseni Tamboura said in a stat...
- Nine dead in Burkina Faso jihadist attackThree of the dead belonged to the Volunteers for the Defence of the Motherland (VDP), an anti-jihadist civilian defence force created in De...
- French forces in Mali kill jihadist commander of an Al-Qaeda-aligned groupAg Moussa, alias 'Bamoussa', is "believed to be responsible for several attacks against Malian and international forces," she said in a sta...
- Elite European anti-jihadist force takes first steps in SahelTakuba troops are tasked with supporting elite Malian soldiers, who use motorbikes and pick-up trucks to zip into territory lost to jihadis...
- French airstrikes kill over 50 Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in central MaliThe offensive took place on Friday in an area near the borders of Burkina Faso and Niger, where government troops are struggling to rout an...
- French forces kill leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic MaghrebDroukdel was killed on Thursday near the Algerian border, where the group has bases from which it has carried out attacks and abductions of...
- French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in Iraq for talks on anti-IS warIS claimed attacks in Paris that killed 130 people in November last year and there is concern that the jihadists will strike the country ag...
- A time of reckoning: Strike hard against terror now, wherever it raises its headYou cannot fight jihadi terror and continue to cosy up to countries that finance, arm and train terror groups.
- Cannot confirm French killed in Syria strikes: Defence MinistryA source in the delegation of Prime Minister Manuel Valls, currently visiting Jordan, earlier said the strikes had probably killed French j...
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