Islamic militants and Malian armed forces and their allies committed serious rights abuses against civilians during attacks across the West African country earlier this year, Human Rights Watch said.

Warring parties in Mali are committing serious rights abuses, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.

Islamist armed groups and Malian armed forces and their allies have committed serious abuses against civilians since fighting ...

Although directly overseen by the Russian Ministry of Defense, Africa Corps soldiers have already been implicated in numerous ...

For nine years, France was Mali’s staunchest ally in its fight against rebel fighters who have killed thousands of people and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes. Now, French forces are ...

Seventeen years after handing over control of its national telecommunications champion to a foreign investor, Mali has ...

The military leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger on Saturday signed a mutual defence pact, ministerial delegations from the three Sahel countries announced in Mali's capital Bamako. The ...

Relations between France and Mali have worsened, after France suspended counter-terrorism cooperation and ordered two Malian diplomats to leave Paris. The move came in response to the arrest of a ...

Mali is facing its most serious security challenge in years as jihadist fighters and Tuareg separatists launch coordinated attacks and tighten a blockade around the capital, Bamako, increasing ...

Surprise coordinated attack by jihadists and separatists last weekend has rattled the regime and its security ally Russia ...

Spanning the area from Senegal to Eritrea, situated between the Sahara to the north and the African tropics to the south, the Sahel region has long faced severe, complex security and humanitarian ...

Mali's military government has offered a €3 million reward for information that leads to the arrest or killing of Iyad Ag Ghali, head of the Sahel branch of al-Qaeda that launched a major offensive in ...