{"id":22149,"date":"2015-12-28T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/islamic-extremists-kill-at-least-15-tuaregs-in\/"},"modified":"2015-12-28T00:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:06:52","slug":"islamic-extremists-kill-at-least-15-tuaregs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/islamic-extremists-kill-at-least-15-tuaregs-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Extremists Kill at Least 15 Tuaregs in Mali’s North"},"content":{"rendered":"

{ Islamic extremist in Mali’s north have killed at least 15 people in two attacks in the Kidal region near the border with Algeria, a jihadi group and resident said.}<\/p>\n

Militants with the Ansar Dine extremist group killed 11 people in an attack on Tuareg rebels near the Algerian border in Kidal, the militants said in a statement on a jihadi website Saturday.<\/p>\n

“The attack resulted in the release of mujahedeen prisoners and the recovery of vehicles and weapons,” it said.<\/p>\n

Four people were killed Friday during an ambush by Ansar Dine on a Tuareg separatist vehicle, including the younger brother of the secretary-general of the separatist group that signed a peace deal with the government in late June, said a Kidal resident who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect his security.<\/p>\n

Ansar Dine and other extremist groups, including al-Qaida’s North Africa branch with which it is allied, have spoken out against the peace accord, accusing separatists who signed it of betraying the local population.<\/p>\n

The attacks on Tuareg separatists were likely in retaliation for the killing of Ansar Dine militants by the separatists on Dec. 19, said a Tuareg separatist who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not have permission to speak to the press.<\/p>\n

An anti-extremist unit of the separatists killed at least four jihadis and imprisoned four others, the separatist said.<\/p>\n

Islamic extremists took hold of Mali’s north after a power vacuum in the south in 2012. A French-led operation ousted the jihadis in 2013, but attacks and unrest continue, moving further south.<\/p>\n

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Source:ABC [->http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/islamic-extremists-kill-15-tuaregs-malis-north-35965891]NEWS:Islamic Extremists Kill at Least 15 Tuaregs in Mali’s North<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{ Islamic extremist in Mali’s north have killed at least 15 people in two attacks in the Kidal region near the border with Algeria, a jihadi group and resident said.} Militants with the Ansar Dine extremist group killed 11 people in an attack on Tuareg rebels near the Algerian border in Kidal, the militants said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000071131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2516],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-22149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-abc-news"],"bylines":[{"id":2516,"name":"ABC News","slug":"abc-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2516,"name":"ABC News","slug":"abc-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000071131,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22149.gif","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/gif","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22149.gif","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22149.gif","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22149.gif","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22149.gif","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22149.gif","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000071131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22149"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=22149"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=22149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}