{"id":32109,"date":"2013-01-15T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T11:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=32109"},"modified":"2013-01-15T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T11:10:40","slug":"mali-islamist-terror-groups-sized-town-despite-the-presence-of-french-troops-africa-news-32109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/mali-islamist-terror-groups-sized-town-despite-the-presence-of-french-troops-africa-news-32109\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali: Islamist terror groups sized town despite the presence of French troops \/ Africa News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mali-islamist-terror-groups.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32119\" title=\"Mali-islamist-terror-groups\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mali-islamist-terror-groups.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mali-islamist-terror-groups.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mali-islamist-terror-groups-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Islamist terror groups in Mali have seized the town of Diabaly in government-controlled area amid presence of French soldiers.<\/h1>\n<p>French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the fighters sized the town which is approximately, 400km from the capital, Bamako on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Le Drian however added that there is no cause for alarm since they are in control of the situation but admitted that French forces were facing a difficult situation against well-armed rebels in western areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They took Diabaly after fierce fighting and resistance from the Malian army that was not able to hold them off at that moment, about five rebel vehicles entered the town,&#8221; he said on BFM Television.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the town are reportedly to have been fleeing from the town as they suspect a swift counter attack from the French troops which is like going to be air strikes.<\/p>\n<p>France, with UN support, began its military intervention last Friday in an attempt to stop Islamist rebels who took control of northern Mali last year and were advancing towards Bamako.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamists began a counter-attack on Diabaly, home to a key Mali army base, on Sunday night according to residents; hours after French warplanes had targeted the town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issaka Adams \/ NationalTurk Africa News<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamist terror groups in Mali have seized the town of Diabaly in government-controlled area amid presence of French soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[77153,43579,36790,960,43581,43583,40657,36049,43584,43580,43582],"class_list":["post-32109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-africa","tag-africa-mali","tag-bamako","tag-france","tag-french-soldiers","tag-french-warplanes","tag-islamist-terror","tag-mali","tag-mali-army","tag-mali-french-troops","tag-terror-groups-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}