Rukmini Callimachi

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French soldiers patrol through the central market in Timbuktu, Mali. (AP/Rebecca Blackwell,)

National Security

$0.60 for cake: Al Qaeda records every expense

Rukmini Callimachi · December 30, 2013 5:00 am

Al-Jazeera crew detained in Niger is released

Al-Jazeera crew detained in Niger is released

Rukmini Callimachi · June 17, 2013 10:00 pm

Twisted metal lies at the site of a morning car bomb attack inside a military camp in Agadez, in northern Niger, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France. Both attacks were claimed by a spinoff of al-Qaida, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO, which earlier vowed to avenge the four-month-old French-led military intervention which ousted them from town's in Mali's north.(AP Photo)

Extremists claim responsibility for Niger attacks

Rukmini Callimachi, Dalatou Mamane · May 23, 2013 4:00 am

C. African Republic president flees to Cameroon

Rukmini Callimachi, Christopher Torchia · March 25, 2013 12:00 am

Radical Islamists attack Malian city of Gao

Radical Islamists attack Malian city of Gao

Rukmini Callimachi · March 24, 2013 12:04 am

Arab man arrested in Mali after giving interview

Arab man arrested in Mali after giving interview

Rukmini Callimachi · February 14, 2013 2:41 pm

In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 photo, neighborhood resident Mohamed Alassane walks past a room where he and other residents say al Qaida held European hostages, at the Ministry of Finance's Regional Audit Department, in Timbuktu, Mali. In the same building, occupied by Islamists for more than a year, the AP found a more than 10-page letter signed by Abdelmalek Droukdel, the senior commander appointed by Osama bin Laden to run al-Qaida's branch in Africa. The confidential letter from the terror leader spelled out the terror network's blueprint for conquering this desert nation.(AP Photo/Rukmini Callimachi)

In Timbuktu, al-Qaida left behind strategic plans

Rukmini Callimachi · February 14, 2013 5:00 am

Video story: French, Mali forces retake airport in city of Gao

Video story: French, Mali forces retake airport in city of Gao

Rukmini Callimachi, Krista Larson · January 26, 2013 5:00 am

Mali’s Ansar Dine splits into 2

Mali’s Ansar Dine splits into 2

Rukmini Callimachi · January 24, 2013 9:43 am

A convoy of French soldiers drives north as they pass through Segou, central Mali, some 240kms (140 miles) from Bamako Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. French troops in armored personnel carriers rolled through the streets of Diabaly on Monday, winning praise from residents of this besieged town after Malian forces retook control of it with French help a week after radical Islamists invaded. The Islamists also have deserted the town of Douentza, which they had held since September, according to a local official who said French and Malian forces arrived there on Monday as well. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Fight for Mali town reflects Islamist tactics

Rukmini Callimachi · January 22, 2013 5:00 am

French seize control of 2 key Mali towns

Baba Ahmed, Rukmini Callimachi · January 21, 2013 5:00 am

Young men play football in Bamako, Mali.

Mali: French troops begin land assault

Baba Ahmed, Rukmini Callimachi · January 16, 2013 5:00 am