Through Le Figaro with Reuters
Soldiers from the Barkhane force neutralized around 30 jihadists in Mali on Thursday and Friday, as part of three separate operations, according to a statement from the French army headquarters.
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“Continuing this week its efforts in the area of the three borders in coordination with its partners of the Malian armed forces, the Barkhane force put out of combat more than thirty terrorists during several successive operationsHe wrote. A Reaper drone, a Mirage 2000 patrol, as well as a Tiger and a Cougar helicopter participated in two targeted strikes that left around 20 deaths among the fighters of the katiba of Gourma, linked to Al Qaeda, the army said. The other operations were carried out in the Liptako region against the Islamic State in the Grand Sahara (EIGS).
This week, moreover, operations by Barkhane’s commandos enabled “the elimination of a dozen terroristsDuring two separate actions in a region where the Islamic State in the Grand Sahara (EIGS) is active, recently designated by Paris as the number one enemy in the Sahel. The French army refuses to give a precise count of the jihadists it kills, injures or captures, and groups these three categories under the generic terms of “neutralization” or “knocked out“.
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