Al-Qaeda Branch Kills Mali Defense Chief in Suicide Attack

Mali’s defense minister was killed in a suicide attack on his home on Saturday, during a coordinated assault by an al-Qaeda affiliate across several locations in the West African country.

Sadio Camara’s assailants struck his residence near a military barracks close to the capital, Bamako, with a car bomb, Interior Minister Issa ​Ousmane ​Coulibaly ⁠said. The fighting also killed worshipers at a nearby mosque, he ⁠said.