“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 ...

The French military said the withdrawal of its forces from Mali has been completed after more than eight years of presence in the West African country. The French ...

France pulled the last of its troops out of Mali on Monday, bringing the country's Operation Barkhane to an end. "This day at 1.00 p.m. (1300GMT), the last detachment of the Barkhane force present on ...

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali's foreign affairs ministry said that Chad planned to deploy 1,000 additional soldiers to Mali to reinforce its troops battling insurgents there, as France scales back its ...

The last French armed forces in Mali have relocated to Niger, after a falling out with Mali's military government and its alleged use of Russian mercenaries. French forces have officially left Malian ...

French soldiers from the "Barkhane" operation patrol the streets of Guintou, near Gao, Mali, on December 4, 2021. THOMAS COEX / AFP A planned but silent departure. This seems to have been France’s ...

Macron wants “clear-cut answers”. In Watford, outside London, where he was taking part in a NATO summit on 4 December, the French president declared that extending Operation Barkhane would be ...

Mali's decision to renounce a military cooperation agreement with France after it fell out with the ruling junta is "unjustified" and would not affect the military withdrawal, a French foreign ...

Some 5,500 French troops were deployed at the height of the jihadist insurgency President Macron will use a speech in Toulon on Wednesday to bring to an official end France's eight-year anti-jihadist ...

Since President Emmanuel Macron's February 17 announcement that France would be officially withdrawing from Mali – and despite the outbreak of war in Ukraine seven days later – the French army has ...

The French military on Monday confirmed that its last soldier with the Barkhane anti-terror mission in Mali had left the West African country. Paris had announced it ...