{"id":39203,"date":"2024-04-30T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/mali-claims-death-of-terrorist-who-helped-lead-deadly-ambush-in-niger\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:19:07","slug":"mali-claims-death-of-terrorist-who-helped-lead-deadly-ambush-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/mali-claims-death-of-terrorist-who-helped-lead-deadly-ambush-in-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali Claims Death of Terrorist Who Helped Lead Deadly Ambush in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mali said on Monday that it had killed a high-value Islamist commander who helped lead a 2017 attack in which four American and four Nigerien soldiers were killed<\/a> alongside an interpreter.<\/p>\n

The U.S. State Department had put a $5 million bounty<\/a> on the head of the commander, Abu Huzeifa \u2014 a member of an affiliate of the Islamic State \u2014 after his participation in an attack in Tongo Tongo, Niger, on American Green Berets and their Nigerien comrades.<\/p>\n

At that time, the attack was the largest loss of American troops during combat in Africa since the \u201cBlack Hawk Down\u201d debacle in Somalia in 1993.<\/p>\n

In a post<\/a> on social media on Monday, Mali\u2019s armed forces said that on Sunday they had \u201cneutralized a major terrorist leader of foreign nationality during a large-scale operation in Liptako\u201d \u2014 a tri-border region that contains parts of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n