The rescue of a Spanish hostage kidnapped in Algeria has raised the profile of the fighters from ALF, a new coalition created ...

The HCUA is commanded by the Ifoghas Tuareg leader Alghabass Ag Intallah, who was a senior member of Ansar al-Din before briefly founding the Mouvement Islamique de l’Azawad and then the HCUA in May ...

A Tuareg rebel alliance in northern Mali has released a Spanish man kidnapped in North Africa on Jan. 17, two of the group's spokesmen said late on Monday. Spain's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A rebel alliance in Mali said Tuesday it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last week. The Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), a coalition of separatist armed ...

A coalition of separatists in Mali, the Azawad Liberation Front, on Tuesday said it had freed a Spanish national kidnapped by a group of bandits in Algeria. The kidnappers had hoped to sell him to ...

There are chinks in Wagner’s armor since its mercenaries' recent defeat in northern Mali by the Tuareg separatist group, the ...

The MNLA was founded in October 2011 following meetings held in northern Mali, largely among Tuareg communities. It was initially composed of a mixture of Tuareg returnees from the 2011 rebellion ...

On December 3 of last year, five armed separatist groups in the country announced their alliance, forming the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), which wants independence for part of northern Mali.

Tuaregs fighters of the Coordination of Movements of the Azawad (CMA) travel in a convoy near Kidal, northern Mali on September 28, 2016. [AFP] A Spanish man who was kidnapped last week near the ...