France is to end its years-long anti-terror mission targeting Islamists in the Sahel region of West Africa, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday ...

France recently announced, all of a sudden, the end of Operation Barkhane, which it had launched on its own initiative on August 1, 2014, with the goal of eliminating Salafi groups associated with ...

On Feb. 17, President Emmanuel Macron announced his decision to withdraw French forces from Mali. These troops form part of Operation Barkhane, a French anti-jihadist operation primarily focused on ...

This week, President Emmanuel Macron announced the official end of France's anti-jihadist mission in West Africa – Operation Barkhane. The move was accelerated by a collapse of relations with Mali's ...

French soldiers from the "Barkhane" operation patrol the streets of Guintou, near Gao, Mali, on December 4, 2021. THOMAS COEX / AFP A planned but silent departure. This seems to have been France’s ...

Meanwhile, in France, Operation Barkhane is increasingly seen as a long-running drain on resources with no clear end in sight. Macron said France would now consult with its American and European ...

“This transformation will translate into a model change” with a “new framework” which means “the end of Barkhane as an external operation, to allow for an operation of support and cooperation with ...