Twelve Malian soldiers were killed in an attack by Jihadists in the central Mopti region in Mali. Preliminary intelligence indicates that the militants conducted the first attack Monday at night on the military outpost where at least nine soldiers were killed. The militants further attacked reinforcement sent to the base on Tuesday morning, killing three soldiers and wounding ten more.
The jihadi attacks continue to support intelligence that indicates that Al Qaeda and ISIS-affiliated militants have broken a proverbial truce that unofficially ensured mutual survival and coexistence between the groups in the vast region. Mali has been going through a political upheaval caused by a coup that was prompted by the violence in central Mali.
Mali has been struggling to contain a jihadist insurgency that first emerged in the north of the country in 2012, and which has since spread to the center of the country and neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger.
