Operation Barkhane

The French army announced on Monday that its anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed Yahia Djouadi, a "senior leader" of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in charge of finance and logistics. Djouadi,…

Local officials in northern Mali accused the French military on Friday of killing six civilians in an airstrike, but French forces said they had hit extremist militants. The incident, which occurred on Thursday in the remote region of Gao, is the second time this year that France's operation Barkhane has been accused of killing civilians. The operation involves more than 5,000 troops fighting militants in Mali and neighboring countries. Barkhane said the strike had "neutralized" a group of militants…