Northern Mali conflict

The troops of the Carpathian Pumas Detachment took over on Tuesday the missions from their colleagues who acted, between October 2019 - April 2020, in the first rotation of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Republic of Mali / MINUSMA, shows a release from the Ministry of National Defence (MApN).

AGERPRES special correspondent Cristian Lupascu reports: Commander Ingo Korzetz of the German contingent deployed to the Camp Castor in Gao commended, in an interview to AGERPRES, the Romanian servicemen deployed within the UN mission in Mali (the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali - MINUSMA) for their professionalism, saying that without their medical evac

Turkey on Jan. 27 condemned a terrorist attack in Mali that killed at least 20 soldiers.

"We are saddened to receive the news that many soldiers lost their lives and injured in a terrorist attack on the Sokolo military camp in the Segou region of Mali," Turkey's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

At least 53 soldiers and one civilian were killed in a terror attack on a military post in northern Mali on Nov. 1, the government said.

At least 53 Malian soldiers and a civilian were killed on Nov. 1 by militants who attacked a military post, a government spokesman said.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday that 120 troops and four helicopters will start in mid-October their mission in Mali in support of the UN effort to assist the Malian Government. "Romania participated and still participates in United Nations peacekeeping operations covering countries all over the world, from Afghanistan and Sudan to Georgia and Haiti, and now in Mali.

At least three terrorists were "neutralized" during an operation in eastern Turkey, the Interior Ministry said on Aug. 14.  

Mali's government said that armed men attacked a central village, killing 37 civilians, in what appeared to be ethnic violence.

A U.S.-led coalition air strike on Syrian army positions overnight killed at least 12 pro-regime fighters in an area where both sides have been battling holdout jihadists, a monitor said on May 24.

France yesterday marked two years since its worst ever terror attacks, when jihadists killed 130 people in Paris and injured hundreds of others.