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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 10:16 AM Nov 2015

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.
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Suspected jihadists kill three at U.N. base in north Mali (Original Post) oberliner Nov 2015 OP
K&r uppityperson Nov 2015 #1
Mali seems to be a focal point of attacks recently for some reason oberliner Nov 2015 #2
Reading after the hotel terrorists, it seems to have been going on for quite some time uppityperson Nov 2015 #3
I've read of an "Al-Qaeda vs. ISIS" rivalry oberliner Nov 2015 #4
Thank you, I'll go read that. uppityperson Nov 2015 #5

uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
3. Reading after the hotel terrorists, it seems to have been going on for quite some time
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 03:56 PM
Nov 2015

I have to confess my ignorance beyond colonialism, then post colonialism uproar.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
4. I've read of an "Al-Qaeda vs. ISIS" rivalry
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 04:01 PM
Nov 2015

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/

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