Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, three countries under military rule, signed a security agreement for mutual defense against terrorism or foreign aggression.

Niger's Ministry of Defense announced that 17 soldiers of Niger's army were killed yesterday following an attack near the country's border with Mali.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has announced that the army and "foreign" fighters have killed at least 500 people in Mali.

Eighteen soldiers were killed when "terrorists" struck an army camp in western Niger, the government said Tuesday, adding the US and France had provided air support to help repel the assault.

At least 95 people were killed in an overnight attack on an ethnic Dogon village in central Mali, local officials said on Monday, the latest bout of ethnic violence fueling the country's security crisis.

A car bomb attack has killed at least three Malian civilians and wounded two others in northern Mali, the country’s security ministry says.