The move clears the way for Assimi Goita to lead Mali until at least 2030, despite pledge to return to civilian rule.

Sudan's army chief and de-facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan accused Libya's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar of not being ...

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps forced British forces back across North Africa, after a series of victories. It had ...

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The Malian army reports successfully repelling coordinated jihadist attacks across its central and western regions, while ...

Feared by enemies and admired by allies, Erwin Rommel earned his nickname commanding the Afrika Korps—but his final battle ...

BAMAKO, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Eleven terrorists from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, including a senior commander, surrendered to the Malian Armed Forces in the town of Ansongo in northern Mali ...