Heavy Fighting Reported Between The Malian Army And The Tuareg Separatist Group MNLA

Malian Army Takes Village From Tuareg Rebels -- Voice of America DAKAR, SENEGAL — Heavy fighting broke out Wednesday between the Malian army...

Mali War News Updates -- January 17, 2013

(Click on Image to Enlarge) If nothing else, the graphic above reveals the scale of the task Paris has set itself. French marines are dealin...

Commentaries And Analysis On The Mali War

Mali's Rebels Hold The Advantage In A Ground War On Desert Plains -- The Guardian Islamist Tuareg fighters are masters of the hit-and-ru...

Who Is Sending Troops To Fight In The Mali War

U.S. Delays Support, Cites Legal Concerns-- Wall Street Journal A U.S. decision about aiding France's military campaign in Mali has been...

War In Mali -- News Updates January 16, 2013

( Click on Image to Enlarge ) French forces have bombed rebel bases in Mali, where Islamist rebels have threatened to advance on the capital...

Mali War News Updates -- January 15, 2013

( Click on Image to Enlarge ) French forces have bombed rebel bases in Mali, where Islamist rebels have threatened to advance on the capital...

African Forces To Arrive In Mali Soon

French forces have bombed rebel bases in Mali, where Islamist rebels have threatened to advance on the capital Bamako from their strongholds...

What Is The U.S. Role In The Mali Conflict

  US Sharing Intel On Mali With France, Eyes More Support -- Reuters  * U.S. has 'commitment' to keep al Qaeda on run * Pentagon chi...

Commentaries, Opinions, Editorials, And Analysis On France's Intervention In Mali

With French Air Strikes, Has The War To Retake Northern Mali Begun? (+video) -- Peter Tinti, Christian Science Monitor Today's expansion...

Mali War News Updates -- January 14, 2013

Mali Islamists Counter Attack, Promise France Long War -- Reuters (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels launched a counter-offensive o...

U.S. Preparing To Offer Limited Support For France's Military Campaign In Mali

U.S. Set to Offer Limited Support For Military Effort -- Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—The Obama administration moved Sunday toward approvi...

The Current Crisis In Mali Exposes A Major Failure Of U.S. Policy In The Country

French Strikes in Mali Supplant Caution of U.S. -- New York Times BAMAKO, Mali — French fighter jets struck deep inside Islamist strongholds...

France Pledges A 'Short' Campaign Against Islamic Rebels In Mali

Mali: France Pledges 'Short' Campaign Against Islamists -- BBC French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said that France's inv...

With Western Assistance African Leaders Agree To Wage War Against Islamic Militants In Northern Mali

West Africa Agrees To Deploy Troops To Mali -- BBC West African regional leaders have agreed to deploy 3,300 soldiers to Mali to retake the ...

Mali Requests Military Assistance To Defeat The Islamists In The North

Mali Formally Requests Regional Intervention Force -- Voice of America DAKAR — Mali's interim leader Dioncounda Traore requested thatthe...

Plans To Create An Islamic State Within Mali Collapses

Plans For Islamist Breakaway State Within Mali Collapse -- The Telegraph A plan for Tuareg rebels to unite with hardline Islamists to procla...

Mali's War Against The Tuareg Rebels Is Escalating

Mischief In Mali -- Weekly Standard A model African country confronts subversion—with U.S. help. Mali Defense Forces (MDF) backed by attack ...

War Atrocities Being Reported in Mali

Mali Says Soldiers, Civilians Executed During Tuareg Clashes -- AFP BAMAKO — The Malian army said Monday that soldiers and civilians had bee...

Gaddafi's Legacy Brings Misery To Mali

Qaddafi’s Weapons, Taken by Old Allies, Reinvigorate an Insurgent Army in Mali -- New York Times BAMAKO, Mali — In life, he delighted in fom...

Fighting Is Escalating In Mali's Civil War

Heavy Weapons Rattle Northern Mali Town, Thousands Flee -- Yahoo News/Reuters KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) - Sporadic heavy weapons fire rang out i...