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War in Mali French and Malian forces take Timbuktu and other cities as they continue their efforts to push out Islamist militants who had threatened to take over the West African nation.
Feb. 6, 2013
Malian soldiers follow a resident to a house formally occupied by Mujao radicals when they fled Gao, in northern Mali. Troops from France and Chad moved into Kidal in an effort to secure the strategic city, a French official said.
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Feb. 5, 2013
Malian soldiers patrol the streets of Gao, northern Mali.
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Feb. 4, 2013
A convoy of Malian troops makes a stop to test some of their weapons near Hambori, northern Mali, on the road to Gao. French troops launched airstrikes on Islamic militant training camps and arms depots around Kidal and Tessalit in Mali's far north, defense officials said Sunday, as the first supply convoy of food, fuel and parts to eastern Mali headed across the country.
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Feb. 4, 2013
Malian girls smile as they walk past a wall decorated with flags of African countries participating in Operation Serval, in Gao. In a new phase of the Mali conflict, French airstrikes targeted the fuel depots and desert hideouts of Islamic extremists in northern Mali overnight Monday, as French forces planned to hand control of Timbuktu to the Malian army this week.
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Feb. 4, 2013
Students work in a classroom in Gao on the first day of the reopening of schools after the French bombing of Islamist targets. The town was taken on Jan. 26 by French and Malian forces from Islamists who had been occupying it for the last year.
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Feb. 4, 2013
A teacher checks students' chalk boards in a classroom where the majority of the tables and benches were taken by Islamists.
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Feb. 3, 2013
French troops patrol the streets of Gao, Mali. France said it carried out major air strikes Sunday near Kidal, Mali, the last bastion of armed extremists chased from Mali's desert north by a French-led offensive.
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Feb. 2, 2013
Officials who had planned to give French military a gift of six cows as a gesture of gratitude wait for the soldiers to arrive in Timbuktu, Mali. The French officers didn't come. French President Francois Hollande visited the city for two hours, 20 days after the start of Operation Serval.
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AP
Feb. 2, 2013
Women pose with a Malian soldier who just arrived in a convoy at the military base in Timbuktu.
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AP
Feb. 2, 2013
Malians cheer as French President Francois Hollande speaks in Bamako. Hollande’s visit followed the recent liberation of three main rebel-occupied northern cities by French troops.
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Feb. 2, 2013
A man sweeps the red carpet before the arrival of French President Francois Hollande at the airport outside Mopti, Mali.
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Feb. 2, 2013
French President Francois Hollande, flanked by Mali's interim president, Dioncounda Traore, arrives at the airport in Timbuktu, the second step of his one-day visit in Mali.
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Feb. 2, 2013
French soldiers stand guard at the control tower at the airport in Timbuktu during the visit of French President Francois Hollande
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Feb. 2, 2013
Hollande, second from left, greets a cheering crowd at Independence Plaza in Bamako.
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Feb. 2, 2013
Hollande and other dignitaries visit the archives library in Timbuktu. Islamists had torched some of the ancient manuscripts in the library as they fled the town.
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Pool
Feb. 2, 2013
Senegalese army chief General Mamadou Sow delivers a speech after reviewing the troops at a military camp in Bargny, near Dakar, before their departure for Mali as part of the second contingent of Senegalese troops to back Malian forces.
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Jan. 30, 2013
French Foreign Legion troops work under a deployed parachute at Timbuktu airport two days after freeing the northern Malian desert city. French troops on Jan. 30 entered Kidal, the last Islamist bastion in Mali's north after a whirlwind French-led offensive, as France urged peace talks to douse ethnic tensions targeting Arabs and Tuaregs.
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Jan. 29, 2013
Paratroopers of the 17th Engineers Engineer Regiment paratrooper Montauban are dropped with materials from a C-130 and a C-160 aircraft above the airport in Timbuktu, as part of the French military operation code-named Serval.
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Jan. 29, 2013
People cheer as soldiers of Malian Col. Alaji Ag Gamou enter Ansongo, a town south of the northern Malian city of Gao.
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Jan. 29, 2013
People celebrate with the French flag in Ansongo, a town south of the northern Malian city of Gao, as troops from Niger enter the city.
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Jan. 29, 2013
People hold a sign reading "Thank you for the liberation" in Ansongo, as troops from Niger enter the city.
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Jan. 28, 2013
Chadian soldiers patrol the streets of Gao, in northern Mali.
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Jan. 28, 2013
Malian soldiers enter the historic city of Timbuktu.
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Jan. 27, 2013
Malian colonel Diarra, center, gives information to journalists at a checkpoint near Sevare. French-led troops were advancing on Mali's fabled desert city of Timbuktu on Sunday after capturing a string of other towns in their offensive against Islamist militant groups in the north of the country. Meanwhile, African leaders meeting in the Ethiopian capital were discussing scaling up the number of African troops to join the offensive, after the African Union's outgoing chief admitted that the body had not done enough to help Mali.
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Jan. 26, 2013
Malian soldiers arrive at Gao airport, north of Mali.
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Jan. 23, 2013
A helicopter belonging to a French air force battalion lands at the airport in Sevare, Mali. France reinforced its military operation in Mali, code-named Serval, with this helicopter battalion to be sent to Mopti.
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Jan. 23, 2013
French soldiers meet their Malian counterparts at an observation post outside Sevare, about 400 miles north of Mali's capital Bamako. One wing of Mali's Ansar Dine rebel group has split off to create its own movement, saying that they want to negotiate a solution to the crisis in Mali, in a declaration that indicates at least some of the members of the al-Qaeda-linked group are searching for a way out of the extremist movement in the wake of French airstrikes.
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Jan. 23, 2013
A herd of cows passes by a Malian soldier guarding with a machine gun the entrance of the strategic bridge of Merkala upon the Niger river.
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Jan. 23, 2013
Malians hang up French and Malian flags along the road to Diabaly, which was seized last week by Islamists and then heavily bombed by French planes. Malians are cheering the troops of their former colonial masters as they help push back the Islamist militants.
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Egyptian jihadi leader Mohammed al-Zawahiri, shown here when he was once in police custody in Cairo, has sanctioned violence against the West in retaliation from French-led campaign against militants in Mali, saying the United States and Europe are “making jihadists.” The brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said all Muslims have the right to stop this aggression by any means. “This barbarism, aggression and brutality . . . according to sharia, we have to confront it.”
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AP
Jan. 23, 2013
A French soldier stands guard in an armored vehicle while French troops destroy a stock of ammunition taken from jihadists in Diabaly. French and Malian troops recaptured the frontline towns of Diabaly and Douentza in a major boost to their push north to flush out al-Qaeda-linked rebels.
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Jan. 23, 2013
A French foreign legion paratrooper looks through field glasses near Sevare. African forces began moving toward Mali's center on Wednesday.
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Jan. 23, 2013
Shoes remain in the Malian barracks that were occupied by Islamists in Diabaly.
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Jan. 23, 2013
Malian soldiers load weapons cases on a truck at a Niono headquarters. The regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States, has pledged up to 4,000 troops to join a French-led intervention force to stop the advance of Islamist rebels based in northern Mali.
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Jan. 23, 2013
Cyclists pass a sugar cane field near Niono that had been set afire.
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Jan. 23, 2013
Malian soldiers watch a French military unit near Diabaly.
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Jan. 23, 2013
A French armored vehicle drives on a road next to the central market in Diabaly.
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