Tuareg rebellions

Gunmen attacked a military police base early Tuesday in the Malian capital Bamako where gunfire and explosions were heard and the airport was closed, sources said.

"This morning armed men attacked at least one military police base in Bamako. They have not been formally identified," a police source told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Mali's northern Tuareg rebels claimed they killed and injured dozens of soldiers and Wagner mercenaries in two days of fighting near the Algerian border. The army reported losing two soldiers but said it killed around 20 rebels.

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.

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

Mali declared a ten-day state of emergency following the hostage siege, which took place at a hotel in the capital Bamako on Friday.

Suspected Islamist militants had seized 170 people hostage in the Radisson Blu hotel in the centre of the capital before the building was stormed by security forces.

At least 27 people are feared dead after Islamist extremists with guns and grenades stormed a luxury hotel in Mali, SkyNews reported on Friday.

The TV channel attributed the information to UN peacekeepers, who have seen the bodies in the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako.  

Special forces stormed the hotel and escorted guests out.

Gunmen stormed into luxury Radisson hotel in Bamako, Mali’s capital, on Friday. At this moment two terrorists are believed to be holding 170 hostages according to a senior security force source and other witnesses in the area.

At least 12 people were killed during a nearly 24-hour siege of a hotel in central Mali seized by suspected Islamist gunmen that ended on August 8 as security forces stormed the building and released some of the United Nations workers trapped inside.