EDITORIAL. The joint offensive in northern Mali by pro-independence fighters and jihadists is a catastrophic setback for the military junta in power in Bamako, which has funded Russian mercenaries and fueled a bloody and dead-end spiral of violence.

After withdrawing from the town of Kidal at the start of the pro-independence and jihadist offensive on April 26, and then from Tessalit on May 1, Malian and Russian troops have…

EDITORIAL. The joint offensive in northern Mali by pro-independence fighters and jihadists is a catastrophic setback for the military junta in power in Bamako, which has funded…