Despite their efforts, Islamist forces continue to provoke instability in the region, almost a decade after French troops were first deployed in Mali to contain their advances. Meanwhile, in France, ...

Un véhicule blindé de l'opération Barkhane a heurté un IED (engin explosif improvisé) ce mercredi 21 février dans la région d?Indelimane, près de Gao, au Mali. L?armée confirme la mort de deux soldats ...

A few weeks ago, the Danish government announced it would submit to its parliament a request for the deployment of two medium lift helicopters AW101 and about 70 military personnel to the Sahel region ...

Eight years after its launch in August 2014, in the wake of Operation Serval in Mali, Operation Barkhane will soon come to an end. This military manoeuvre was considered to be France’s most important ...

“If we withdraw from Mali”, “if the President decided to announce the end of Operation Barkhane”, “if we imagined a scenario in which we had to leave the Gao area”… These days, the French army’s top ...

Suppose one were to plot out on a map the progress of two jihadist insurgencies in Africa: the Islamic insurgency in the Maghreb and the Boko Haram insurgency. The former... French president Emmanuel ...

African leaders’ announcement of military base closures signals a rejection of French policy and the country’s diminishing influence. To understand the latest coup in Burkina Faso, one must appreciate ...

THE FRENCH army is no stranger to the Sahel. France colonised much of the semi-arid strip south of the Sahara in the 19th century, and in 2013 the country’s soldiers returned. As armed northern ...

AGADIR, Morocco — When thousands of troops from the United States, Africa and Europe trained together here this month, one nation was notably absent: France. The former colonial power has for years ...

“This transformation will translate into a model change” with a “new framework” which means “the end of Barkhane as an external operation, to allow for an operation of support and cooperation with ...

France is to end its years-long anti-terror mission targeting Islamists in the Sahel region of West Africa, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday ...