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Canada won’t ‘get into another Afghanistan’ in Mali, Baird says in defence of...
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird declared Tuesday that Canada won’t “get into another Afghanistan” as he defended the Harper government’s refusal to do more in Mali. “We are not, at the...
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‘Use dolls and statues’ among 22 helpful tips issued by al-Qaeda to avoid...
TIMBUKTU, Mali — One of the last things the bearded fighters did before leaving this city was to drive to the market where traders lay their carpets out in the sand. The al-Qaeda extremists bypassed...
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Mali Islamists recruit child soldiers from local schools, leaving ‘untold...
GAO, Mali — The radical Islamic fighters showed up at Mohamed Salia’s Koranic school, armed with weapons and demanding to address his students. The leader, named Hamadi, entered one of the classrooms,...
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Harper consulting with cabinet, opposition parties on future role for Canada...
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is consulting the cabinet and opposition parties on what Canada could contribute to a possible United Nations peacekeeping mission for Mali. Harper...
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Documents indicate al-Qaeda, fighters in Mali may have surface-to-air missiles
TIMBUKTU, Mali — The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class. Except that the students in this case were al-Qaeda...
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Shepherd leads investigators to the body of ‘The Last Arab of Timbuktu’ in...
TIMBUKTU, Mali — The body of an old man known as The Last Arab of Timbuktu, the symbol of ethnic minority Arabs who died or disappeared in a backlash against the al-Qaida occupation, has been found...
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Five Canadians and six permanent residents among the 116 killed in the Air...
PARIS — French soldiers on Friday secured one of the black boxes from the Air Algerie plane that went down in restive northern Mali with the loss of at least 116 people, French President Francois...
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UN finds second black box of Air Algerie jet among scattered debris in...
BAMAKO, Mali — The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali said Saturday that its experts found the second black box of the Air Algerie plane that fell from the sky and disintegrated in remote northern Mali,...
View ArticleShaun Francis: Corporate Canada should embrace our veterans
Two years ago, I stood among a circle of soldiers at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan and listened to Canada’s chief of the defence staff, General Walter Natynczyk, speak to his troops. Early in his...
View ArticleWayne K Spear: Mali's obscurity does not lessen the importance of its struggle
Even if the contemporary account of al-Umari is greatly exaggerated, the 1324 transit of the Malian emperor Mansa Musa’s vast entourage on a Mecca pilgrimage must have been an unforgettable sight. So...
View ArticleNational Post Editorial Board: Tom Mulcair’s disappointing lack of ‘clarity’
Fresh off studiously ignoring Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence for the duration of her fishy fast, Thomas Mulcair added to his careful-centrist credentials yet again this week, when news broke of...
View ArticleTerry Glavin: France shows some muscle in Mali
It seems to take quite a lot for a spectacular state-failure catastrophe to attract the attention of the civilized world these days, what with U.S. President Barack Obama’s persistent and absurd...
View ArticleFull Pundit: Stop worrying and love the Parliamentary Budget Officer
Parliamentary affairs Thoughts on the future of the Parliamentary Budget Office, politicians’ privacy, the necessity (or lack thereof) of parliamentary civility, Canada’s mysterious mission in Mali,...
View ArticleKelly McParland: France provides some lessons on how to declare victory
Francois Hollande had his George Bush moment on the weekend, descending on Mali with a coterie of French cabinet ministers to declare “Mission Accomplished” after French troops chased terrorists from a...
View ArticleClifford D. May: Islam’s global civil war
In much of what we now call the Muslim world, Muslims are fighting Muslims. The conflicts fall into two broad categories: those in which militants battle militants, and those in which militants battle...
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European dreams become nightmares: Africans seeking new life make epic trek...
VELES, Macedonia — This is the moment when Sandrine Koffi’s dream of a new life in Europe ended — and her nightmare of an infant lost in the Macedonian night began. As club-wielding police closed in,...
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Islamist extremists storm Mali hotels, killing four and taking at least six...
BAMAKO, Mali — Jihadists stormed two hotels in central Mali on Friday, seizing at least six hostages and killing three Malian soldiers and a U.N. peacekeeper in one of the most brazen attacks in...
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At least 27 reportedly dead after heavily armed Islamic militants storm Mali...
BAMAKO, Mali — Islamic extremists armed with guns and grenades stormed the Radisson hotel in Mali’s capital Friday, and security forces swarmed in to free guests floor by floor. As evening fell,...
View ArticleMortar attack on U.N. base in Mali kills at least three people
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Mortars lit up the dawn sky when they were fired on a United Nations base in the northern Mali city of Kidal early Saturday, killing at least three people. The attack came eight...
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Canadian Army headed to mission in Africa ‘very soon’: top general
OTTAWA — The Canadian Army will soon head to a mission in Africa but the military is keeping quiet where and when troops will go. “The army’s been preparing for the future, preparing for a wide range...
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