Mali's army said its attack targeted armed militants. The Collective for the Defense of the Rights of the Azawad People, part of a Tuareg separatist coalition, said the attack occurred 50 ...

The people are paying a high price for the ongoing conflict. In 2024, the Malian armed forces and their Russian auxiliaries killed three times as many civilians as the Islamists - even if the latter, ...

It was February in northern Mali. The group lying ... a secessionist state of “Azawad”, have become a key focus, and have reawakened a decades-long independence war in the north.

Mali’s army said its attack targeted armed militants. The Collective for the Defense of the Rights of the Azawad People, part of a Tuareg separatist coalition, said the attack occurred 50 ...

The al Qaeda group also claimed responsibility for an attack on fighters from the Tuareg Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA ... to operate openly inside Mali and the wider Sahel. Caleb Weiss is ...

The Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) was created late last year in a merger of several predominantly Tuareg groups seeking to seize territory in northern Mali. Follow our coverage of the war on the ...

MSA was founded last year by former members of several pro-Azawad groups [Azawad refers to northern Mali], but is allied to GATIA and other ... Caleb Weiss is an editor of FDD's Long War Journal and a ...

Some of the youths reportedly shouted: "Long live Azawad" - in support of the rebel call for independence for northern Mali. Under the June deal, fighters from the National Movement for the ...

Around 20 people were killed in northern Mali on Monday when the vehicles they ... The separatist rebel group Front for the Liberation of Azawad (FLA) condemned the continuation of "ethnic ...

frequently fly over this town located on the border between Algeria and Mali. On the ground, fighters from the separatist group FLA (Azawad Liberation Front) arrived at the crash site thirty minutes ...