Security analysts say the group known as Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), which has been operating for months ...

A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who ...

If jihadists take over the West African state of Mali it would mark a stunning success sending shockwaves beyond the region.

Militants affiliated with al-Qaeda have created a fuel crisis in Mali by blocking routes used by fuel tanker trucks across ...

Dozens of Malian truck drivers risk their lives every day to supply the capital, Bamako, with fuel as a blockade by Al-Qaeda-linked group JNIM creates chronic shortages. "You never know if you'll come ...

In Bamako's business district, hundreds of cars and motorcycles sit stranded day and night on a boulevard waiting for one of ...

A coalition of jihadist groups affiliated with al-Qaida have laid siege to landlocked Mali’s capital. For over a month, they ...

An al-Qaeda-linked group, JNIM, has blockaded fuel supplies in Mali’s capital for two months, crippling Bamako and pressuring ...

The U.S. Embassy in Mali told all American citizens on Tuesday to leave the country due to a severe fuel crisis and security ...

Islamist fighters in Mali have reportedly expanded their operations around Bamako, as they press on with a fuel blockade on ...

In the major cities of Central Sahel countries, such as Niamey, Bamako, and Ouagadougou, children are forced to beg on the ...