BAMAKO, Mali (AP) – Islamic extremists seized control of the strategic town of Douentza on Saturday, moving much closer to government-held territory in central Mali, according to witnesses in the town ...

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Islamists in Mali have retaken the northern town of Douentza, disarming without a fight a local militia trying to wrest back control of the rebel-held north, fighters on both sides ...

(AP) Malian forces on Tuesday controlled the strategic town that was under extreme Islamist rule for four months, as the French-led military intervention pushed northward in its second week. Douentza ...

Douentza’s Islamist occupiers have fled, but the central Malian town is still effectively under siege, its residents cut off from the outside world by tanks, land mines and poverty. Douentza was the ...

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Segou - Malian forces on Tuesday held control of the strategic town that was under extreme Islamist rule for four months, as the French-led military intervention pushed northward in its second week.