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The attack came just days after three French soldiers were killed in Mali by the al-Qaida-linked Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM).

Two French soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in northeastern Mali on Saturday, just days after three others died in similar fashion, the French presidency announced. President Emmanuel Macron "learnt with great sadness" of the deaths of Sergeant Yvonne Huynh and Brigadier Loic Risser in the Menaka region, his office said in a statement. Huynh, aged 33, was the first woman soldier sent to the Sahel region...

BBC News Published image captionWorking in the Sahel region has been described as the world's most dangerous peacekeeping deployment Two French soldiers died in Mali on Saturday when their armoured vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. The two were in the eastern region of Menaka collecting intelligence, the French presidency has said. It comes days after three other French soldiers died in a similar way. France has 5,100 troops in the Sahel region which has been a front line in the war against Islamist militancy for almost a decade. The French first intervened in the Sahel reg...

PARIS: Two French soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in northeastern Mali on Saturday, just days after three o...

Deaths brought to 50 the number of French soldiers killed since France intervened in 2013 to help drive back militant forces in the West African nation. Read more at straitstimes.com.