{"id":33186,"date":"2013-02-01T12:07:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T10:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=33186"},"modified":"2013-02-01T12:07:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T10:07:54","slug":"mali-conflict-islamist-militants-devastated-after-french-forces-air-strikes-africa-news-33186","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/mali-conflict-islamist-militants-devastated-after-french-forces-air-strikes-africa-news-33186\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali Conflict: Islamist militants devastated after French forces air strikes \/ Africa News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says three weeks of French targeted air strikes in northern Mali have left Islamist militants devastated.<\/h1>\n

This statement came from the French Defence Minister as French and Malian forces continue to push forward in order to secure the Islamist militants stronghold of Kidal.<\/p>\n

The latest French strikes had been targeting the fighters command centres, training camps and depots north of Kidal, an army spokesman said told reporters.<\/p>\n

France is preparing to hand over towns it has captured to an African force, which has begun to deploy to Mali to help fight the Fighters.<\/p>\n

So far about 2,000 African soldiers, mainly from Chad and Niger, are on the ground combating along side French and Malian Forces.<\/p>\n

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It is believe that France will hand over combat operation to African Union Forces once the north of the country is well secured from the Islamist Fighters.<\/p>\n

It will then be the job of the African Union-backed force, the International Support Mission to Mali (Afisma), to root out the al-Qaeda-linked insurgents that have fled into the desert and mountains further north.<\/p>\n

But at the moment, the French forces are still pushing to secure the last stronghold of the Islamist militants Kidal in the north.<\/p>\n

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