Mali hotel attack

The Group to Support Islam and Muslims bragged about killing Westerners and attacking "a site of debauchery"

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

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

Militants have killed 68 U.N. peacekeepers in Mali in the past three years, but the blue helmets aren't giving up yet.

Nineteen people were killed in the Al-Qaeda claimed attack on a beach resort in March.

Authorities are hunting Kounta Dallah, the alleged ringleader of the Al-Qaeda led attacks.

Other African leaders have also condemned the attacks, which killed at least 30 people.

One attacker was killed at the Bamako hotel, which houses the EU's military training mission in Mali.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Boko Haram are both renewing attacks in the region.

French troops are stationed across West Africa and have fought Al-Qaeda in northern Mali.

People from at least six countries died in the assault on Grand Bassam beach resort.

Abu al-Nur al-Andalusi had previously encouraged Spanish Muslims to "join the jihad."

President Erdogan is conducting a tour of West Africa to boost trade links.

Several militant groups, including Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, are active in northern Mali.

Burundi is burning, militants are rampaging in West Africa, and Libya still needs a stable government.

At least 28 people were killed when Al-Qaeda-linked militants attacked a hotel in Burkina Faso's capital on Friday.

Three militant groups claimed responsibility for the November 20 incident, in which a number of foreign tourists were killed by gunmen at the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako

The attack on the luxury hotel in Mali's capital killed 20 people.

The pope said that religion "must never be used to justify hatred and violence."

The claims of the relatively new militant group are considered to be the most credible

The landlocked West African country gained independence from French colonial rule in 1960.