15 results for "Alan Boswell"
Chad likely to take lead in Mali
Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 12:00 AMNIAMEY, Niger – The French capture of the airport at Kidal, the last of the major Malian towns overrun last year by al-Qaida-affiliated militants, very likely marks the beginning of the end of France's aggressive advance against the ins...
Brave Malians helped rout rebels
Friday, January 25, 2013 at 12:00 AMOn Jan. 14, Diakaridia Doumbia locked his door, climbed to the second floor and peered down from his mud-brick home at a swarm of cocaine-drugged Islamist rebels who had captured the town of Diabaly earlier that day.
Mali's military still a question
Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 12:00 AMOn Saturday morning, a Malian commander painfully tried to explain why none of his troops had moved north despite a rebel retreat 24 hours earlier in a train of vehicles that had headed northeast to the desert.
Islamists capture two more villages in Mali
Friday, January 18, 2013 at 12:00 AMNIONO, Mali – Islamist militants appeared Thursday to expand their control in central Mali, occupying two villages after government troops abandoned their positions.
U.S. takes back seat to France in Mali
Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 12:00 AMWhen France opened the newest front in the war on terror last week with the swoosh of its aircraft over the desert in central Mali, the United States found itself in an unfamiliar position: on the sidelines.
French troops fighting militants in Mali
Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 12:00 AMHundreds of French troops poured into central Mali on Friday in a bid to halt the advance of Islamist militants who last spring captured the country's north and appeared this week poised to seize the remainder of the West African nation.
Congolese rebels take key city as U.N. peacekeepers watch
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 12:00 AMNAIROBI, Kenya – The Congolese army fled and United Nations peacekeepers watched paralyzed as Rwandan-linked rebels wrapped up a stunning five-day offensive Tuesday by strolling into one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's most import...
New Somalia president narrowly escapes blast
Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 12:00 AMNAIROBI, Kenya – Somalia's new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a longtime academic and political activist, boasted during a June interview with McClatchy Newspapers that he had lived in Mogadishu – sometimes referred to as the wo...
How big a threat is Al Qaida's North Africa branch?
Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 11:11 AMAn Algerian Islamist rebel group that in 2007 rebranded itself as al Qaida's affiliate in North Africa, dubbed al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has accomplished a notable feat, moving its operations from Algeria across the Sahara, the...
Kenyan forces gathering for push to seize port from Somalia's Shabab
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 11:47 AMThree weeks into their offensive against Somalia's Shabab Islamist militia, Kenyan forces are preparing for what's likely to be a decisive battle for the southern Somali port of Kismayo, which could either end Shabab's dominance in t...
