Credit: chicagogeekCC BY-SA 2.0SourceUNSOLVEDListenBankass Cercle, Mopti Region, Mali · 2022
On 18–19 June 2022, 132 civilians were killed by Islamist insurgents in Diallassagou and two surrounding towns in Bankass Cercle, Mopti Region, Mali.
Credit: Voice of AmericaPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenRadisson Blu Hotel, Bamako, Mali · 2015
On 20 November 2015, gunmen took an estimated 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, killing 20 people before Malian special forces, supported by U.S. and French personnel, ended the siege.
SOLVEDListenGao, Mali · 2017
On 18 January 2017, a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a military camp near Gao, Mali, killing 77 people and injuring at least 115, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in Malian history.
UNSOLVEDListenAbeïbara, Kidal Region, Mali · 2023
Between June 20 and 29, 2024, Malian Armed Forces and Wagner Group mercenaries carried out reprisal attacks against Tuareg civilians in villages around Abeïbara, Mali, killing at least seventy people.
UNSOLVEDListenKidal, Mali · 2013
On 12 April 2013, suicide bombers affiliated with MOJWA attacked Chadian soldiers at a market in Kidal, Mali, killing four soldiers and injuring five civilians.
UNSOLVEDListenTessit, Gao Region, Mali · 2022
Between February 8 and 10, 2022, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) militants killed at least 40 civilians in five villages in the Tessit commune of Mali's Ménaka Region, following earlier threats and displacement orders from a rival jihadist group.
SOLVEDListenNear Tabankort, Mali · 2011
Two French hostages kidnapped from a restaurant in Niamey, Niger, were killed alongside three Nigerien gendarmes and four AQIM militants during a botched French-Nigerien rescue raid near Tabankort, Mali, in January 2011.
SOLVEDListenKidal, Mali · 2013
On February 26, 2013, MOJWA militants carried out a suicide car bombing against MNLA and MIA fighters at a checkpoint in Kidal, Mali, killing several fighters and injuring others.
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