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Two army personnel were killed and 10 people injured after a Russian-made airplane belonging to the Malian army crashed while landing at the airport in the northern Mali city of Gao on Tuesday ...
GAO, Mali -- A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle attacked a camp in northern Mali on Wednesday, killing at least 33 people and wounded dozens of soldiers and former fighters now trying ...
Unknown assailants shelled the north Mali town of Gao on Sunday, killing one person and wounding three others, according to military sources and residents. Mali's desert north suffers frequent ...
GAO, Mali -- As the sun starts to fall, the call to prayer at the mosque echoes throughout Gao, a predominantly Muslim town in northern Mali. At that same moment, a small church bell nearby also ...
Like other cities in northern Mali, Gao came under control of Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaida following a military coup in 2012. A French-led intervention in early 2013 scattered the ...
Segou/Bamako, Mali - French-backed government forces advanced into northern Mali on Friday towards the Islamist rebel stronghold of Gao, recapturing the town of Hombori, as they followed up on ...
GAO, Mali - GAO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's state television is reporting at least 20 dead after a boat capsized in the region of Timbuktu. The accident took place Sunday, according to the report.
GAO, Mali (Reuters) - By the slow-moving Niger River at Gao, the north Malian town retaken by French troops from Islamist rebels last month, men repair fishing nets beside beached pirogues, women ...
KONNA, Mali — French and Malian troops regained control of the airport and bridge of the crucial, northern city of Gao on Saturday, marking their biggest advance yet in their bid to oust al ...