French military forces based in North Africa have reportedly killed a senior militant linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist group. French government officials said the country’s special forces killed Abdelmalek Droukdel, along with several members of his inner circle, in a joint military operation in northern Mali on Wednesday. Droukdel, who ...
France’s defense minister said French forces have killed the leader of the so-called Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdel, in northern Mali. Droukdel was killed on Thursday near the Algerian border, where the group has bases from which it has carried out attacks and abductions of Westerners in ...
