The army announced late Tuesday that twin assaults in Mali this week killed 16 troops and injured 18 others, in the latest bloodshed in the Sahel state.
Four troops were killed and 17 were wounded in separate assaults in the northeast and center of the conflict-torn nation on Monday, according to the statement.
According to the army, 37 “terrorists” were killed in the raid, and weapons and explosives were taken.
One of Monday’s assaults, on a military station in northern Mali, was claimed by the Islamic State.
“The mujahideen gained complete possession of the military facility and set it on fire,” the organization claimed in a statement confirmed by SITE Intelligence, which tracks jihadist activity across the globe.
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Mali, a poor country with a population of 21 million people, has struggled to control a jihadist insurgency that began in 2012 and extended to Burkina Faso and Niger.
Hundreds of thousands of people have left their homes as a result of the terrible fighting, which has killed thousands of military and civilians.
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