Topic: Mauritania
Algeria and Mauritania's leaders Tuesday vowed to beef up security in the Sahel region, where Islamist militants are holding a dozen Western hostages.Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Mauritania's Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz made the commitment in a joint statement issued at the end ...
Mauritanian forces killed a top official of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) during an air raid into Malian territory, a Mauritanian security source said Friday.Mauritanian national Teyeb Ould Sidi Aly, "the mastermind of the attacks carried out by criminal gangs against ...
Mauritanian forces killed a top official of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) during an air raid into Malian territory, a Mauritanian security source said.Mauritanian national Teyeb Ould Sidi Aly, "the mastermind of the attacks carried out by criminal gangs against our ...
The head of United States African Command (AFRICOM), General Carter Ham, on Tuesday congratulated Mauritania for its successes in the fight against Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)."I congratulated him for the success of the Mauritanian army in its fight against AQIM, ...
The bodies of militants belonging to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb -- killed during a Mauritanian army raid on their camp in neighbouring Mali -- have been found, a Mauritanian military official said Saturday."We are seeing bodies on the ground, burned out ...
BAMAKO (Reuters) - A joint force of Mauritanian and Malian soldiers clashed with fighters from al Qaeda's African wing in western Mali late Friday, Malian military and defense sources said Saturday.The fighting took place in the Wagadou forest region near Mauritania's border, ...
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mauritanian soldiers attacked a camp belonging to Al Qaeda's African wing in neighboring Mali late Friday, a source close to Mali's Defense Ministry told Reuters Saturday.The attack took place in western Mali's Wagadou forest in a border zone where ...
The Mauritanian army has "completely destroyed" an Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb camp in neighbouring Mali in an assault that left four soldiers wounded, a security source said.Friday's attack in the forest region of Wagadou in western Mali involved air strikes and ...
Mauritanian soldiers have arrested an "important collaborator" of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in neighbouring Mali, Mauritanian and Malian sources said Monday."We on Sunday arrested an important accomplice of AQIM, a collaborator of the terrorists who supported them against us, particularly ...
Washington warned Algiers on Friday that Al-Qaeda's offshoot in North Africa may exploit the unprecedented unrest and violence that have been roiling the region, a senior US official said.Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which is a splinter group of the international ...
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