Iran Press/ Africa: Al-Qaeda-affiliated JNIM militants attacked and then claimed responsibility for a police training center and an airport in Bamako on Tuesday.
The government of Mali has not announced the official death toll, but diplomatic and security sources in the region say that around 70 people have lost their lives.
Another unnamed source said hundreds of people appeared to have been killed and wounded, and that the hospital did not have enough beds to treat the injured.
The scale and complexity of the attacks further undermines the ruling junta's claims that security has improved since it booted out French and U.S. forces, and turned to Russia instead for security.
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is an international terrorist group founded by Osama bin Laden in Peshawar during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The group operates in the form of various transnational military networks and as a Sunni Islamic movement that aims to fight the influence and interference of non-Muslims in the Islamic world. Al-Qaeda has been listed as a terrorist organization by many governments and international organizations.
