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Malian children mill through the heavily shelled police station in Gao, northern Mali, Monday Feb. 11 2013, one day after Mujao fighters engaged in a firefight with Malian forces. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Mali reluctant to let in U.N. peacekeepers

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** File ** A French soldier secures a perimeter on the outskirts of Diabaly, Mali. (Associated Press)

U.N. mulls peacekeeping mission to Mali

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** France's Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrives at the Elysee Palace for a Small Defense of council meeting, in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. Hundreds of French troops are involved in an operation at destroyed a command center of Islamic rebels in Mali. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

France claims kills of ‘hundreds’ of Islamists

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Mali soccer team show strength in adversity

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

A man takes a close look at a burned-out truck in Timbuktu, Mali, on Jan. 31, 2013. Islamic militants fled from the area when French special forces parachuted in to liberate the city of Timbuktu several days ago. (Associated Press)

Mali jihadists in custody say tortured by military

By Rukmini Callimachi - Associated Press

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

GEDRICH: A long look before a leap into a war in Mali

By Fred Gedrich

Elders meet with the mayor and the governor of Gao in Gao city, Mali, on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in an effort to avoid vengeance attacks following the arrival of French and Chadian troops in the area, ending 10 months of sharia law. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

French capture Islamists’ last major Malian town

By Krista Larson - Associated Press

** FILE ** Pentagon press secretary George Little (center) takes part in an audio news conference with Brig. Gen. Stephen A. Clark of the Air Force Special Operations Command (pictured on a television top right) at the Pentagon on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

Official: U.S. may set up drone base in Niger

By Pauline Jelinek and Robert Burns - Associated Press

** FILE ** An unidentified worker looks after some of the 20,000 preserved ancient Islamic manuscripts that rest in air-conditioned rooms at the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu, Mali, in 2004. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

France: Mali military enters storied city of Timbuktu

By Krista Larson and Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

Chadian soldiers patrol the streets of Gao, northern Mali, on Jan. 28, 2013. After securing a strategic bridge and the airport in Gao the day before, Malian troops backed by French helicopters and paratroopers entered the fabled city of Timbuktu, north of Gao, on Monday after al Qaeda-linked militants fled into the desert. (Associated Press)

U.S. won’t be taking a combat role in Mali

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

SAMAKE: The way forward for Mali

By Yeah Samake

** FILE ** Fighters from the Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard in Timbuktu, Mali, on Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, as they prepare to publicly lash a member of the Islamic Police found guilty of adultery. (Associated Press)

Obama administration requests $32 million for African troops

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Libyan military guards check one of the burned-out buildings at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2012, during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif to express sympathy for the death of J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and his colleagues in the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate. (Associated Press)

Westerners warned to leave Benghazi

By Casssandra Vinograd - Associated Press

Militants from the Islamist terrorist group Ansar Dine stand guard during a hostage handover in the desert outside Timbuktu, Mali, in April. (Associated Press)

Arab Spring exacerbated Islamist threat to Mali

By John Price - Special to The Washington Times

A Malian soldier walks Jan. 21, 2013, inside a military camp used by radical Islamists and bombarded by French warplanes in Diabaly, Mali, some 460 kilometers (320 miles) north of the capital Bamako. French and Malian troops took control Monday of the town of Diabaly, patrolling the streets in armored personnel carriers and inspecting the charred remains of a pickup truck with a mounted machine gun left behind by the fleeing militants. (Associated Press)

U.S. aids Paris’ bid to ‘thwart’ Mali militants

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing a person killed during the gas-facility hostage situation at the morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria, on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

2 Canadian militants involved in Algerian siege

By Aomar Ouali and Karim Kabir - Associated Press

** File ** A French soldier secures a perimeter on the outskirts of Diabaly, Mali. (Associated Press)

French seize control of 2 key Mali towns

By Rukmini Callimachi and Baba Ahmed - Associated Press

Malian soldiers are jubilant as they return to Niono, Mali, from Diabaly, some 300 miles north of the capital, Bamako, on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Islamists flee Malian town after French airstrikes

By Baba Ahmed and Krista Larson - Associated Press

French troops arrive at Bamako's airport on Jan. 17, 2013, as fighting raged in one Mali town, airstrikes hit another and army troops raced to protect a third on the seventh day of the French-led military intervention to wrest back Mali's north from al Qaeda-linked groups. (Associated Press)

Aid groups warn they can’t reach key Mali town

By Baba Ahmed and Krista Larson - Associated Press

A French legionnaire cleans the barrel of an armored vehicle at an undisclosed location north of the Malian capital, Bamako, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. French troops pressed northward in the West African country toward territory occupied by radical Islamists on Wednesday, military officials said, announcing the start of a land assault that will put soldiers in direct combat "within hours." (AP Photo/Arnaud Roine, French Army Communication Audiovisual Office [ECPAD])

Airstrikes among surge in fighting in Mali towns

By Baba Ahmed and Rukmini Callimachi - Associated Press