Mali Islamist bunch Ansar Dine claims assault on U.N. base

Malian Islamist activist gathering Ansar Dine has guaranteed obligation regarding a suicide and rocket assault on a U.N. base in Kidal, north Mali on Friday that killed six peacekeepers, the SITE Intelligence Group said.

Review that Ansar Dine, drove by Tuareg authority Iyad Ag Ghali, quickly grabbed the desert north close by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in 2012 and the two gatherings are included in a heightening rebellion that has overflowed Mali's fringes.

In its announcement, Ansar Dine named the suicide plane who exploded himself with a truck bomb as Muhammad Abdullah container Hudhayfa al-Hosni from Mauritania. Substantial weapons shoot resulted.

It was not instantly clear if Ansar Dine was additionally in charge of a trap on Malian troopers close Timbuktu on Friday that killed three.

"The (Kidal) operation is a message to the Crusader trespassers and every one of the individuals who bolster them and guarantee to send their troopers to us, similar to the German President said in his present visit to Bamako," as indicated by the announcement sent late on Friday.

Germany has vowed to send 650 officers to bolster a U.N. peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA) and President Joachim Gauck went to Mali's southern capital Bamako on Friday.

And U.N. peacekeepers, activist strikes have focused on lodgings prominent with Westerners, murdering 30 in Ouagadougou in January, and Malian armed force checkpoints.

MINUSMA has the most elevated rate of setbacks among dynamic U.N. missions and a number of the dead are Africans who possess probably the most unsafe bleeding edge positions in the north.

The six dead peacekeepers in the Kidal assault were all from neighboring Guinea, the U.N. Security Council said in an announcement.


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