Fifteen Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM militants were killed in a counter-terror operations in central Mali, the Malian Armed Forces has reported.
According to the Malian military sources, one soldier died and two others were injured.
The terror combatants were killed, their weapons recovered and their motorbikes destroyed in a military operation conducted in the Tina forest in the Mopti region, the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) said in a statement.
The army “suffered one death and two injuries.”
JNIM Claims Timbuktu Attack
Meanwhile, the main Al-Qaeda-linked alliance in Africa’s Sahel region on Friday claimed the April 14 attack on the international military “Supercamp” at the airport in northern Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu.
The French military said reinforcements were sent from Gao and Niamey including a Mirage 2000 fighter jet, a Tiger helicopter, and commandos deployed by NH90 helicopter and tactical transport aircraft to help defeat the attack.
