French Special Ops Troops Kill Senior AQIM Leader
July 08 2015
The French army says its special operations troops in Mali have killed a senior Al-Qaida leader, reports Al Jazeera (Qatar).
The military said Ali Ag Wadossene was killed during an operation on Sunday in the northeastern town of Kidal. Two other terrorists were captured and two soldiers were injured, said the army on Tuesday.
Wadoseene was one of the operational leader of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), according to the army.
Last December, the French government...
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