Mali Terrorist Attack

Attacks on an army base and a passenger boat on the Niger River in northern Mali on Thursday by suspected jihadists killed 64 people, a Malian official said.

A militant attack on an army base in central Mali on Friday killed at least 27 soldiers and wounded 33 more, the government said.

India on Friday strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Mali this week in which 33 Malian soldiers were killed.

Hundreds of terrorists attacked a Niger military camp near the border with Mali with shelling and mortars, killing 71 soldiers, the defence ministry said Wednesday.

Suspected terrorists crying "Allahu Akbar" stormed a tourist resort popular with foreigners on the edge of the Malian capital Bamako on Sunday, briefly seizing hostages and leaving at least two people dead.

Suspected Islamist terrorist attacked a UN peacekeepers' base in the northern Mali town of Kidal today, killing several people and wounding others, a spokesman for the separatist Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) told Reuters.

Anita Ashok Datar, the lone Indian-American killed in a terrorist attack in Mali last year, has been honoured by the US Senate which unanimously passed a resolution praising her work for the advancement of international development and public health.

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".

Mali reimposed a nationwide state of emergency for the final 10 days of the year to head off any terror threats, after a deadly terrorist attack in the capital last month.

Following terror attacks in Mali, Paris and Beirut, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has unveiled a new mobile app designed to help keep his citizens safe, Digitaltrends.com reported.

The killing of Anita Ashok Datar, the lone American citizen who died in the terrorist attack in Mali, should deepen America's resolve to lead the world to meet the threat posed by radical jihadism, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today.

An Indian-American woman is among at least 27 people killed during a deadly siege of a Mali hotel by Islamic extremists.

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.

A peacekeeper and two children died on Sunday as militants shelled a UN base in northern Mali, heightening security fears as police hunted jihadists who launched a deadly Bamako nightclub assault.

One American was killed and two escaped unharmed from a remote Algerian natural gas plant stormed by armed militants, NBC News reported on Friday, noting that the fate of two others was unknown. The five Americans were among dozens of hostages the attackers seized during their assault on the In Amenas plant in eastern Algeria on Wednesday, NBC sai...

Attacks on an army base and a passenger boat on the Niger River in northern Mali on Thursday by suspected jihadists killed 64 people, a Malian official said.

A militant attack on an army base in central Mali on Friday killed at least 27 soldiers and wounded 33 more, the government said.

India on Friday strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Mali this week in which 33 Malian soldiers were killed.

Hundreds of terrorists attacked a Niger military camp near the border with Mali with shelling and mortars, killing 71 soldiers, the defence ministry said Wednesday.

Suspected terrorists crying "Allahu Akbar" stormed a tourist resort popular with foreigners on the edge of the Malian capital Bamako on Sunday, briefly seizing hostages and leaving at least two people dead.

Suspected Islamist terrorist attacked a UN peacekeepers' base in the northern Mali town of Kidal today, killing several people and wounding others, a spokesman for the separatist Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) told Reuters.

Anita Ashok Datar, the lone Indian-American killed in a terrorist attack in Mali last year, has been honoured by the US Senate which unanimously passed a resolution praising her work for the advancement of international development and public health.

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".

Mali reimposed a nationwide state of emergency for the final 10 days of the year to head off any terror threats, after a deadly terrorist attack in the capital last month.

Following terror attacks in Mali, Paris and Beirut, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has unveiled a new mobile app designed to help keep his citizens safe, Digitaltrends.com reported.

The killing of Anita Ashok Datar, the lone American citizen who died in the terrorist attack in Mali, should deepen America's resolve to lead the world to meet the threat posed by radical jihadism, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today.

An Indian-American woman is among at least 27 people killed during a deadly siege of a Mali hotel by Islamic extremists.

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.

A peacekeeper and two children died on Sunday as militants shelled a UN base in northern Mali, heightening security fears as police hunted jihadists who launched a deadly Bamako nightclub assault.

One American was killed and two escaped unharmed from a remote Algerian natural gas plant stormed by armed militants, NBC News reported on Friday, noting that the fate of two others was unknown. The five Americans were among dozens of hostages the attackers seized during their assault on the In Amenas plant in eastern Algeria on Wednesday, NBC sai...