:"Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop confirmed late last week that the opening phase of the ongoing insurgency by terrorist-designated “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA) Tuareg separatists and “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin” (JNIM) [[radical]] [[Islamist]]s was a failed [[decapitation]] strike. The Defense Minister was killed and the intelligence chief critically injured... the Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) continued to resist the [[insurgent]]s....His other comments saw him accuse [[Ukraine]] and unnamed countries, likely a reference to the [[US]], [[France]], and [[Algeria]], of providing [[logistic]]al support to insurgents...." | :"Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop confirmed late last week that the opening phase of the ongoing insurgency by terrorist-designated “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA) Tuareg separatists and “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin” (JNIM) [[radical]] [[Islamist]]s was a failed [[decapitation]] strike. The Defense Minister was killed and the intelligence chief critically injured... the Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) continued to resist the [[insurgent]]s....His other comments saw him accuse [[Ukraine]] and unnamed countries, likely a reference to the [[US]], [[France]], and [[Algeria]], of providing [[logistic]]al support to insurgents...." |