French Airstrikes Counter Northern Mali Islamist Insurgency
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French airstrikes sought to halt an offensive by Islamist rebels in northern Mali as west African nations pledged to send about 2,000 soldiers to oust the militants.
France’s intervention in its former colony will last “as long as is needed,” President Francois Hollande said yesterday in a televised speech in Paris. Separately, in Somalia, French special forces failed to free a French intelligence officer who had been held hostage for three years, resulting in his death.