Suspected jihadists kill three at U.N. base in north Mali
Source: Reuters
The United Nations said unknown attackers fired rockets at a U.N. peacekeeping base in Kidal in northern Mali on Saturday, killing three people inside, in the latest sign that the West African country's Islamist insurgency is intensifying.
French troops and the 10,000-strong U.N. force are struggling to stabilize the former French colony where Islamist militants attacked a hotel in the capital on Nov. 20 and killed 20 people, in their bloodiest attack yet in the country's south.
Desert-based jihadists regularly launch rockets and missiles at northern U.N. bases, especially around full moon when the lighter nights make it easier to target the camps, although it is rare for the missiles to land inside the camp.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/28/us-mali-attacks-idUSKBN0TH03M20151128
Three dead and twenty wounded in a part of the world that gets largely ignored.
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)First the hotel, now this.
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)I have to confess my ignorance beyond colonialism, then post colonialism uproar.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)And that Al-Qaeda is trying to get back into the headlines by orchestrating its own attacks in places where it is able to do so, such as Mali.
Edit to Add:
Here's an article on that subject:
http://time.com/4124810/isis-al-qaeda-rivalry-terror-attacks-mali-paris/