L’ex-député Soumaïla Cissé et Sophie Petronin n’étaient pas les seuls détenus en otage dans le grand Sahel. La libération de ces deux personnalités en échange de 206 présumés djihadistes, s’il venait d’être confirmé, ravivent des interrogations alors que d’autres otages maliens, enlevés, bien avant eux, attendent toujours d’être libérés.
Une vingtaine de personnes ont été enlevées mardi dans le centre du Mali par des hommes armés non identifiés, une dizaine étaient toujours retenues mercredi, selon de sources concordantes.
Azerbaijan has admitted using Turkish-manufactured armed drones in clashes against Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, acknowledging it for the first time since the conflict was reignited.
In a televised interview with the Turkish news channel TRT Haber yesterday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said: “Thanks to advanced Turkish drones owned by the Azerbaijan military, our casualties on the front shrunk.” He praised the efficiency of the drones, stating: “These drones show Turkey’s strength. It also empowers us.”
SOHR activists say that at dawn Russian jets executed over seven airstrikes, targeting the surrounding areas of Faydat Ibn Mowayni’ in Al-Mayadeen desert in eastern Deir Ezzor, as the area hosts ISIS dens and cell. However, no casualties have been reported so far. It is worth noting that ISIS always carries out attacks on regime forces in the targeted area.
Reports of increasing activity of Qatari associations in Houthi-controlled areas to provide cover for financial and intelligence support.
Yemeni political sources have pointed to the recent emergence of a new factor in the course of the Yemeni crisis in relation to Qatar’s meddling role.
According to information spread, which also reached the US Senate, the Turkish missile forces had used the purchased Russian S-400 air defense systems against allied F-16 fighters.
This is about the military exercises held this year in Eunomia, where the air forces of France, Italy, Greece and Cyprus took part. According to the information disseminated at that time, the Turkish army had deployed Russian S-400 air defense systems in the Black Sea Turkish province of Samson, and it is assumed that this transfer and deployment was for the purpose of testing the systems.
Daesh terrorists and their families detained in Syria pose a security threat but foreign governments have hesitated to repatriate their citizens.
The YPG-led SDF will allow up to 15,000 Syrians citizens leave a squalid camp it runs in the country’s northeast, which holds displaced people and families of Daesh terrorists.
The United States Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, has held discussions with the chief of Egypt’s General Intelligence Service (GIS), Abbas Kamel, in Cairo, on the ceasefire efforts in Libya.
Soit notre très cher président de la transition accueilli en grande pompe avait accepté de jouer le rôle de figurant pour cacher les intentions du chef de la junte militaire qui avait tenté milles et une fois de se maintenir à la tête de l’État malien, soit il se hasarde dans un jeu dangereux qui risque de faire tomber le peu d’espoir que beaucoup de Maliens ont placé en lui.
On October 5, Mali’s interim president, retired colonel Bah Ndaw, announced his cabinet. As is frequent in West Africa, it is large, with twenty-five members.