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Matthew Fisher: Truck attack in France ups the ante for Canada’s peacekeeping...
Canada’s impending peacemaking mission to Africa took on a more urgent tone Thursday night when a Tunisian man drove a truck through crowds enjoying Bastille Day fireworks on Nice’s palm-lined...
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Matthew Fisher: Peacekeepers seem poised for Mali mission, but Liberals...
Canada seems poised to send troops on a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali. Although the Trudeau government has not confirmed it, Canadian Forces operators believe the decision is imminent. Their opinion...
View ArticleAl-Qaida-led attacks intensify in Mali as Liberals prepare to announce...
TORONTO — An al-Qaida faction has claimed responsibility for missile strikes aimed at U.N. forces in Mali as the Canadian government is poised to announce details of its peacekeeping deployment to...
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Trudeau shrugs off pressure to make decision on Mali peacekeeping mission
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shrugged off calls Friday for a decision on whether to send troops to Mali, saying his government will take the “appropriate” time needed to decide on a...
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Attack on hotel in Mali’s capital ‘under control,’ army says
A hotel on the outskirts of Mali’s capital, Bamako, that’s popular with foreigners was attacked on Sunday, days after the United Nations chief warned that insecurity in the West African nation is...
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‘Rescue your children’: Al-Qaida-linked Mali extremists release hostage video
DAKAR, Senegal — An al-Qaida-linked group in Mali has released a proof-of-life video showing six foreign hostages, a group that monitors jihadist communications says, shortly before the French...
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Matthew Fisher: For Trudeau, a UN mission in Africa appears ever more daunting
Comment KAMPALA, Uganda — The Trudeau government still famously cannot make up its mind where to send peacekeepers in Africa or explain what it hopes to achieve by deploying them there. Notwithstanding...
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Three elite soldiers with U.S. Special Forces lured into ambush and killed in...
By Alex Horton Three U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers were killed in Niger in northwestern Africa on Wednesday after their joint patrol with Nigerien forces was ambushed. Source: maps4news/HERE One...
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Back to the drawing board: National Defence officials are once again looking...
OTTAWA — Officials at National Defence have dusted off their briefing books and are back looking at where they could send Canadian peacekeepers as the clock ticks down to a major UN summit on the...
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Two members of elite SEAL Team 6 under suspicion in strangling of Green Beret...
WASHINGTON — Navy criminal authorities are investigating whether two members of the elite SEAL Team 6 strangled an Army Green Beret in June while they were in Mali on a secret assignment, military...
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Navy SEALs may have strangled Green Beret to death because he discovered...
WASHINGTON — Two Navy SEAL commandos under investigation in the strangling of an Army Green Beret soldier in June in Mali have also been under scrutiny in the theft of money from a fund used to pay...
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Canada offers troops, helicopters and planes to UN, but still can’t say what...
More than a year after pledging up to 750 troops and police for United Nations peacekeeping missions, the Canadian government still can’t say where they’ll be headed. Canada will offer the UN training...
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Trudeau’s plan to send peacekeeping troops to Mali questionable, says...
The Conservative defence critic is questioning the Trudeau government’s decision to send peacekeeping troops to the troubled West African nation of Mali. A senior government source, speaking on...
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Canadian military has better chance of avoiding casualties in air above Mali...
Canadian helicopter crews and support personnel are headed to Mali, and while there are dangers associated with any operation they have a much better chance of avoiding casualties than do the United...
View ArticleJohn Ivison: Canada’s new peacekeeping mission to Mali is more about image...
Retired Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire was blunt in his assessment. “I wouldn’t touch Mali with a 10-foot pole,” he told me in fall 2016 after returning from a fact-finding trip to Africa with...
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Some of Canada’s allies frustrated with how Liberals’ announced Mali...
OTTAWA — Diplomats from some of Canada’s closest allies are quietly expressing frustration with how the Trudeau government handled this week’s announcement that it plans to send military helicopters to...
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More than just peacekeepers? Canadian helicopters in Mali could be used to...
OTTAWA — The six military helicopters that Canada plans to send to Mali could be used to move more than peacekeepers: they could be called upon to support a multinational counter-terrorism force also...
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With details of Canada’s deployment to Mali still murky, Conservatives demand...
OTTAWA — As details remain scarce around Canada’s prospective deployment to a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, Conservatives are asking the Liberal government for a formal debate and vote in the House...
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Everything you need to know about the violence in Mali and what Canada will...
When Canadian helicopters and crew land in Mali later this summer, they will join a mission the United Nations has described as “highly volatile.” And there is disagreement among experts over what role...
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A dozen Canadian peacekeepers have arrived in Mali as a yearlong mission begins
GAO, Mali — Canadian troops started to take up their positions in the world’s most dangerous peacekeeping mission on Sunday, as a dozen Forces members flew into an isolated United Nations’ base to...
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