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First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

French army to begin Mali pullout

France is set to begin the first major stage of its military withdrawal from Mali, four months after sending troops to push Islamist rebels out the north.A convoy of 80 lorries will leave a French base outside the capital, Bamako, and drive south to Ivory ... [Published BBC - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Mali, French Army, Bamako

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Islamist groups claim responsibility for Niger double bombing

The al Qaeda-linked MUJAO group has claimed responsibility for a double bombing in Niger yesterday that resulted in the death of at least 20 people. Moktar Belmoktar, an Islamist who led a previous attack on an Algerian gas plant last January, also claimed ... [Published New Europe - May 24 2013]

Entities: Niger, Bombing, MUJWA Movement for Unity & Jihad in West Africa, Arlit (Niger), Mokhtar Belmokhtar

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Mokhtar Belmokhtar

Algerian jihadist behind Niger attack

A double suicide attack in Niger on Thursday left more than 20 people dead, mostly soldiers. Some fear this could mean conflict is spreading from neighboring Mali. Watch a video about the situation. WATCHRelated LinksNiger attacks fuel fears Mali conflict ... [Published News24.com - May 24 2013]

Entities: Niger, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, jihadist, Mali

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Armed forces prohibit display of body tattoos

, DHNS:No restriction on religious skin arts subject to approvalSick of meeting youths turning up in recruitment camps sporting filmy tattoos, the armed forces have prohibited display of body tattoos in soldiers except small ones suiting the religious ... [Published Deccan Herald - May 22 2013]

Entities: Military/Armed Forces, Religion, French Army, Hepatitis

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

French historian commits suicide

UTCNext to his body, the police have found a note but its content has not been divulged.The author of many books and essays , Dominique Venner, a far-right historian had willingly served with the French army in the war in Algeria and was known to be the ... [Published Turkish Radio and Television - May 22 2013]

Entities: Suicide, Same-Sex Marriage, Dominique Venner, French Army

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Nexter

Army chief to visit France to boost defence ties

New Delhi: Seeking to strengthen bilateral defence ties, Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh would be on a five-day visit to France starting Sunday.The Army Chief would be on a five-day visit to France starting May 26 and will discuss ways of strengthening defence ... [Published zeenews.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: France, Bikram Singh, Nexter, Military/Armed Forces, MBDA

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

UK Royal Marines

What can businesses learn from the military?

Chris PatonNSBL finds out how military techniques relate to companies in the region.AgilityAt the outbreak of the second world war, the French Army were obsessed with finding out the German position, so they could set their defences in the perfect pl ... [Published Weston & North Somerset Echo - May 21 2013]

Entities: Military/Armed Forces, French Army, UK Royal Marines

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

French army expects first A400M airlifter by July 14

The French army hopes to receive its first Airbus A400M military transport aircraft in time for the country's annual Bastille Day celebrations on July 14, a Defence Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.The aircraft, which is about five years behind ... [Published Naval Open Source INTelligence - May 18 2013]

Entities: French Army, Pierre Bayle, Airbus A400M, Paris Air Show, Airbus Military

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

French Army logistics general visits FORSCOM, Fort Bragg

) - Maj. Gen. John R. O'Connor explains the organizational structure of U.S. Army Forces Command to French Army General de Brigade Jean-Yves Lauzier during a visit today to the Marshall Hall headquarters of FORSCOM...FORT BRAGG, N.C. (May 16, 2013) - ... [Published United States Army - May 18 2013]

Entities: French Army, USARCENT US Army Forces Central Command, Logistics, Army General

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

French army expects first A400M airlifter by July 14

Entities: French Army, Airbus A400M, Transport Aircraft

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 5 reports

rench jihadist captured by forces in Mali

A suspected French jihadist has been captured by French forces in Mali, the defense ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, one of a handful of French nationals in the Sahel suspected of fighting against their own country.French authorities had been searching ... [Published Global Times - May 01 2013]

Entities: Mali, jihadist, Sahel, French Army, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

France: jihadist convert arrested in Mali

photo provided by the French Army Communications Audiovisual Office (ECPAD) shows French soldiers patrolling the Mettatai region in northern Mali. The Security Council unanimously approved a new U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali on Thursday, April 25, ... [Published Macon Telegraph - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: jihadist, Mali, France, French Army, Peacekeeping

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...professor and author of The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims, says the worst impact will be the distrust that grows in the wake of such attacks, "the everyday suspicion that it exacerbates,” he says. “It’s not a question of whether it’s justified or unjustified, it’s part of the logic of the terrorism theater.” OPPOSITION TO THE 'WAR ON TERROR A 2006 poll from Pew showed the US “war on terror” as extremely unpopular among Muslims in Europe, with 83 percent of Muslims in Spain opposed, 78 percent in France, 77 percent in Britain, and 62 percent in Germany. Three years later, showed that 75 percent said it was wrong for the “West” to intervene militarily in Pakistan and Afghanistan – though a majority, 78 percent, also said that they opposed Taliban attacks against NATO soldiers."

Are Woolwich suspects' beliefs about 'war on Islam' widely held? [Published Yahoo! News - 19 hours ago]

The former rebel leaders have been integrated into the national army "without the commanders having abandoned their warlord-style predatory economic activities, which they have now extended to the entire Ivorian territory" . Highlights of the report show that

Monkey Business in Ivory Coast [analysis] [Published Individual.com - May 24 2013]

...The group also threatened to carry out more attacks in the future. As it wrote in a statement posted on Islamist Internet forums: "We will launch further operations. It also threatened France and other countries involved in military operations in Mali. Both of the attacks in Niger were also claimed by an al Qaeda affiliated group, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), that has vowed to take revenge for being ousted from Malis north by the French army."

Islamist groups claim responsibility for Niger double bombing [Published New Europe - May 24 2013]

"Thanks to Allah, we have carried out two operations against the enemies of Islam in Niger" MUJAO spokesman Abu Walid Sahraoui told AFP

Belmokhtar 'supervised' Niger attacks [Published NEWS.com.au - May 24 2013]

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Audio/Video

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French army reaches out to Mali civilians [Published Reuters Video: Top News - Feb 26 2013]
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