BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Algeria said Tuesday it shot down a military drone near the country's border with Mali in the first incident of its kind during growing… ...

Bamako reciprocated by applying the same measure to Algeria. This new diplomatic row began on 1 April, when a Malian army drone was shot down by the Algerian army over the border area of Tin ...

But the junta in Bamako denied that the drone had violated Algeria's airspace. It said that the aircraft's wreckage was found 9.5km inside its borders.

Algeria and Mali have each closed their airspace to flights from the other country, as the row over a drone that was shot down close to their common border escalates.

BAMAKO, Mali (Reuters) -Mali accused neighbouring Algeria of shooting down one of its surveillance drones near their shared border in a statement read out by the security minister on national TV ...

Algeria and Mali share a 1,400-kilometer border and long-standing cultural ties, ... In 2023, Bamako reclaimed Kidal from separatist forces, signaling a decisive break from negotiated compromise.

Although Bamako’s and Algiers’ measures are a setback for Air Algérie, they remain less sweeping than those imposed by Niger since September 2023, when Niamey shut its skies to “all French aircraft or ...

In the lawsuit brought against Algeria in Bamako, questions about Iyad Ag Ghali – a former Malian Tuareg rebel who has become the Sahel's most wanted jihadist leader since heading the Group for ...

Algeria and Mali have each closed their airspace to flights from the other country, as the row over a drone that was shot down close to their common border escalates. On Sunday, without giving ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Algeria said Tuesday it shot down a military drone near the country’s border with Mali in the first incident of its kind during growing tensions between the two countries ...