Mali

The attackers allegedly scaled a wall and kidnapped the young girl as she slept alongside her mother and sibling.

Mohammed Mahmoud Abu al-Maali, a Mauritanian expert on ISIS and Al-Qaeda in the region, told Newsweek the U.S. military had a destabilizing effect.

A new ISIS video, entitled "Assault of the Brave Against the Army of the Americans," shows the last moments of four Green Berets killed in Niger last year.

The State Department has classified these 11 nations as "Do not travel."

Staff Sergeant Logan Melgar was found dead on June 4.

Johan Gustafsson said that his captivity was something between a "prison sentence and Robinson Crusoe."

Mali has played host to a raft of extremist groups in recent years but people’s reasons for joining are often the same.

James Krause was declared dead after he went missing on a flight from South Africa to Mali, but his family says he is alive.

Amad al-Faqi al-Mahdi was jailed for nine years in 2016 after pleading guilty to war crimes.

McGowan was kidnapped along with a Swede and Dutch national, both of whom have already been released.

The group kidnapped the Swedish national from Timbuktu in 2011.

Hostages were taken by gunmen as they stormed a luxury resort.

The new French president has criticized France's colonial legacy in Africa, but early signs suggest he may not follow through by pulling out.

Italian authorities told Newsweek that while there are episodes of suicide among asylum seekers, this appears to be the first to have occurred in such a public place.

Al-Qaeda affiliates are active in the region.

Some of the groups were involved in the 2012 northern Mali uprising.

Jihadi groups regularly target army and U.N. bases in northern Mali.

A 2015 peace deal is aimed at resolving the causes of a 2012 revolution in northern Mali.

Irregular migration from Africa to the EU has increased by 13 percent in 2016.

Militant Islamist groups are ramping up attacks in Mali as a peace deal falters.

French troops are deployed across North and West Africa to tackle militant groups.

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi led the destruction of nine historic shrines and a 15th-century mosque.

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi is the first person to enter a guilty plea at the ICC.

The presenter, known as Ras Bath, suggested jihadis are on the front foot against Mali armed forces.

Militant Islamists Ansar Dine and an ethnic group have claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Ansar Dine leader had a penchant for whisky and served as a diplomat in Saudi Arabia.