Tag: Kidal

More than 200 Malian troops reached the northern city Kidal on Thursday, the army said, the military’s first permanent deployment there since being chased...

Mali's prime minister visited Kidal on Friday, the first senior government delegation in three years to visit the city, under the control...

A UN peacekeepers' camp near Kidal in Mali came under rocket fire shortly before a visit by the prime minister, the first...

Rival armed groups in northern Mali agreed to the return of a state governor to Kidal for the first time in years...

Fighting broke out in the town of Kidal in Mali's desert north on Thursday between pro-government militia and a Tuareg-dominated rebel coalition,...

Tuareg separatists said on Thursday they had seized several towns in northern Mali after routing government forces in fighting that threatens to...

About 20 Malian soldiers were killed and 30 wounded in a failed attempt by government forces to retake the Tuareg separatist stronghold...

Gunfire erupted between the Malian army and Tuareg separatists (MNLA) in the northern city of Kidal on Saturday as the prime minister...

Separatist Tuareg rebels said on Friday they were ending a five-month-old ceasefire with Mali's government and taking up arms following violence in...

Malian soldiers clashed with stone-throwing protesters who blocked a visit by the prime minister to the northern rebel stronghold of Kidal on...

Condolences continue to pour in from across Africa and France following the death of two French journalists in the remote desert town...

French and Malian forces are questioning suspects in northern Mali to find a small group of militants who carried out the killing...