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At Least 4 Assailants Killed After Mali Tourist Resort Attack: Minister
Four assailants have been killed by security forces in Mali after an attack on a tourist resort popular with foreigners close to the capital Bamako, the country's security minister said late Sunday.
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Gunmen Attack EU Military Mission Headquarters In Mali; 1 Attacker Killed
Gunmen on Monday attacked a hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, that had been converted into the headquarters of a European Union military training operation, but there no casualties among the mission's personnel.
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Burkina Strike Boldest Yet As Islamist Insurgency Pushes South
In a 2013 speech claiming victory over jihadists in Mali who had seized the north a year earlier, French President Francois Hollande said that if it had not been for his nation's military intervention, "today we would have terrorists here in Bamako".
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Opinion: Listening To Islam's Self-Critical Voices
In the wake of the Paris bloodbath, the attacks in San Bernardino, California, and Bamako, Mali, and murders elsewhere before and since, people desperately want to understand the root cause of all this violence. That's true not only in the West, where many blame Islam itself. It's true in the Middle East, too, where we are struggling to come to gri...
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Mali Hotel Attack Probe Delayed Over Investigators' Differences: Sources
A probe into last month's hostage taking at a hotel in Mali's capital Bamako has been slowed by procedural differences between Malian investigators and their foreign counterparts, sources said on Saturday.
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Bamako Hotel Hostage Taking Was Joint Attack: Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said last month's hostage taking at a hotel in Mali's capital Bamako was a joint operation with another jihadist group, in an audio message posted Friday.
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3 Dead in Rocket Attack on UN Base in North Mali
Two UN peacekeepers and a contractor died in a rocket attack Saturday on a UN base in northeast Mali claimed by the jihadist Ansar Dine group, a week after a deadly siege at a Bamako hotel shocked the country.
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Mali TV Shows Photos of Man and Woman Suspected in Hotel Attack
Authorities in Mali published the photographs today of a man and a woman they said helped plan an attack on a luxury hotel in which 19 people and two gunmen were killed, according to state television, which showed the pictures.
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Vladimir Putin Says Wants Global Anti-Terrorism Fight After 19 Killed in Mali Attack
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday global cooperation was need to confront terrorism in the wake of an Islamist militant attack targeting foreigners in a luxury hotel in Mali that killed 19 people.
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Barack Obama Condemns 'Appalling' Mali Jihadist Attack
US President Barack Obama today condemned what he called the "appalling" jihadist hostage seige in Mali that left at least 27 people dead, including an American citizen.
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Mali Declares 10-Day State of Emergency Following Hotel Attack
Mali's government declared a 10-day nationwide state of emergency Friday evening after a jihadist attack on a hotel in the capital Bamako that left least 27 people dead.
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Al-Qaeda Affiliated Group Claims Responsibility for Mali Attack
An African jihadist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility today for the attack and ongoing hostage-taking at a business hotel in the Malian capital Bamako.
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At Least 27 Killed by Gunmen in Mali Hotel Siege; 20 Indians Evacuated Safely
18 bodies have been recovered from the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako, where armed gunmen took 170 people hostage today, a foreign security source has told AFP. The gunmen are not holding any more hostages, Mali's security minister has said.
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Hostage Freed From Mali Hotel Says Attackers Spoke English
A famous Guinean singer who was among 170 people taken hostage on Friday by Islamist gunmen in the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, said he heard attackers in the next room speaking English.
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Mali Hotel Siege: All 20 Indians in Building Evacuated, Says Government
Gunmen went on a shooting rampage at the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako today, seizing 170 guests and staff in an ongoing hostage-taking, the hotel chain said. At least three hostages have been killed, said Mali's security ministry.
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At Least 4 Assailants Killed After Mali Tourist Resort Attack: Minister
Four assailants have been killed by security forces in Mali after an attack on a tourist resort popular with foreigners close to the capital Bamako, the country's security minister said late Sunday.
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Gunmen Attack EU Military Mission Headquarters In Mali; 1 Attacker Killed
Gunmen on Monday attacked a hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, that had been converted into the headquarters of a European Union military training operation, but there no casualties among the mission's personnel.
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Burkina Strike Boldest Yet As Islamist Insurgency Pushes South
In a 2013 speech claiming victory over jihadists in Mali who had seized the north a year earlier, French President Francois Hollande said that if it had not been for his nation's military intervention, "today we would have terrorists here in Bamako".
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Opinion: Listening To Islam's Self-Critical Voices
In the wake of the Paris bloodbath, the attacks in San Bernardino, California, and Bamako, Mali, and murders elsewhere before and since, people desperately want to understand the root cause of all this violence. That's true not only in the West, where many blame Islam itself. It's true in the Middle East, too, where we are struggling to come to gri...
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Mali Hotel Attack Probe Delayed Over Investigators' Differences: Sources
A probe into last month's hostage taking at a hotel in Mali's capital Bamako has been slowed by procedural differences between Malian investigators and their foreign counterparts, sources said on Saturday.
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Bamako Hotel Hostage Taking Was Joint Attack: Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said last month's hostage taking at a hotel in Mali's capital Bamako was a joint operation with another jihadist group, in an audio message posted Friday.
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3 Dead in Rocket Attack on UN Base in North Mali
Two UN peacekeepers and a contractor died in a rocket attack Saturday on a UN base in northeast Mali claimed by the jihadist Ansar Dine group, a week after a deadly siege at a Bamako hotel shocked the country.
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Mali TV Shows Photos of Man and Woman Suspected in Hotel Attack
Authorities in Mali published the photographs today of a man and a woman they said helped plan an attack on a luxury hotel in which 19 people and two gunmen were killed, according to state television, which showed the pictures.
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Vladimir Putin Says Wants Global Anti-Terrorism Fight After 19 Killed in Mali Attack
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday global cooperation was need to confront terrorism in the wake of an Islamist militant attack targeting foreigners in a luxury hotel in Mali that killed 19 people.
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Barack Obama Condemns 'Appalling' Mali Jihadist Attack
US President Barack Obama today condemned what he called the "appalling" jihadist hostage seige in Mali that left at least 27 people dead, including an American citizen.
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Mali Declares 10-Day State of Emergency Following Hotel Attack
Mali's government declared a 10-day nationwide state of emergency Friday evening after a jihadist attack on a hotel in the capital Bamako that left least 27 people dead.
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Al-Qaeda Affiliated Group Claims Responsibility for Mali Attack
An African jihadist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility today for the attack and ongoing hostage-taking at a business hotel in the Malian capital Bamako.
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At Least 27 Killed by Gunmen in Mali Hotel Siege; 20 Indians Evacuated Safely
18 bodies have been recovered from the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako, where armed gunmen took 170 people hostage today, a foreign security source has told AFP. The gunmen are not holding any more hostages, Mali's security minister has said.
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Hostage Freed From Mali Hotel Says Attackers Spoke English
A famous Guinean singer who was among 170 people taken hostage on Friday by Islamist gunmen in the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, said he heard attackers in the next room speaking English.
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Mali Hotel Siege: All 20 Indians in Building Evacuated, Says Government
Gunmen went on a shooting rampage at the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako today, seizing 170 guests and staff in an ongoing hostage-taking, the hotel chain said. At least three hostages have been killed, said Mali's security ministry.
