Eight years after its launch in August 2014, in the wake of Operation Serval in Mali, Operation Barkhane will soon come to an end. This military manoeuvre was considered to be France’s most important ...

PARIS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday France's operation battling Islamist militants in the Sahel region of West Africa would come to an end with troops now operating as part of ...

France recently announced, all of a sudden, the end of Operation Barkhane, which it had launched on its own initiative on August 1, 2014, with the goal of eliminating Salafi groups associated with ...

The leader of the jihadist group JNIM relies on a tight circle of lieutenants whose influence stretches from central Mali to ...

France pulled the last of its troops out of Mali on Monday, bringing the country's Operation Barkhane to an end. "This day at 1.00 p.m. (1300GMT), the last detachment of the Barkhane force present on ...

“This transformation will translate into a model change” with a “new framework” which means “the end of Barkhane as an external operation, to allow for an operation of support and cooperation with ...

French soldiers from the "Barkhane" operation patrol the streets of Guintou, near Gao, Mali, on December 4, 2021. THOMAS COEX / AFP A planned but silent departure. This seems to have been France’s ...

France is to end its years-long anti-terror mission targeting Islamists in the Sahel region of West Africa, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday ...

Despite their efforts, Islamist forces continue to provoke instability in the region, almost a decade after French troops were first deployed in Mali to contain their advances. Meanwhile, in France, ...