the air force deputy chief of staff. In a televised statement, flanked by soldiers, he urged Mali's civil and political groups to help create a "political transition leading to credible general ...

Mali, a vast country stretching into the Sahara ... and Col Ismaël Wagué, the air force deputy chief of staff, who had earlier read a statement on behalf of the group. The newspaper quotes ...

"In recent years, thanks to our cooperation with Russia, the Armed Forces of Mali have been sufficiently strengthened," Malian Air Force Chief of Staff Alou Boi Diarra said MOSCOW, August 21.

Soldiers of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali MINUSMA patrol in the streets ... three of its soldiers were wounded when they came under fire, the force added a few hours later.