Mali: Al-Qaeda affiliate JINM claims responsibility for deadly terror attack in capital Bamako

An extremist group affiliated with Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a deadly assault on two military sites in Mali’s capital, Bamako, on Tuesday, bringing a conflict that has ravaged vast swaths of the country to the capital for the first time since 2016.

Mali, a large, landlocked West African nation in the Sahel region, just south of the Sahara, has …