{"id":87576,"date":"2022-08-11T10:49:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T05:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=87576"},"modified":"2022-08-11T10:49:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T05:19:40","slug":"a-suspected-islamist-attack-has-killed-42-malian-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/a-suspected-islamist-attack-has-killed-42-malian-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"A suspected Islamist attack has killed 42 Malian soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forty-two Malian soldiers were killed and 22 injured in an attack near the town of Tessit on Sunday, Mali&#8217;s government said on Wednesday, blaming an Islamic State affiliate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was one of the deadliest attacks in recent years for the Malian army, which has been battling a decade-long insurgency by militant groups that have spread across West Africa&#8217;s Sahel region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Malian army units of Tessit&#8230; reacted vigorously to a complex and coordinated attack by armed terrorist groups, presumably from Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), characterised by the use of drones, explosives, car bombs, and artillery,&#8221; the government said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soldiers killed 37 combatants during several hours of heavy fighting, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The army had previously said that 17 soldiers had been killed in the attack and that nine had gone missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mali is ruled by a military junta that overthrew the democratic government in 2020, in part over frustration at its failure to rein in violence, but attacks have remained common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An al Qaeda affiliate claimed an attack on the country&#8217;s main military base in late July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-two Malian soldiers were killed and 22 injured in an attack near the town of Tessit on Sunday, Mali&#8217;s government said on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[560],"class_list":["post-87576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-malian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87578,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87576\/revisions\/87578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}