Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. As a jihadi insurgency spreads across the Sahel, EU countries are responding to ...

PARIS (AP) — A European military task force that helped Mali’s government fight Islamic extremists has formally withdrawn from the West African country amid tensions with its ruling military junta.

The Netherlands’ Special Operations Command (NLD SOCOM) has disclosed to Shephard its planned contribution to Task Force Takuba - a European Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force (CJSOTF) which ...

The French-led Takuba task force of EU special forces has officially ceased operating in Mali, France announced Friday, ending a year-long anti-jihadist effort that soured after two military coups ...

A new French-led multinational special forces task force reached its initial operating capability (IOC) on 15 July in Mali, the French Ministry of Armed Forces announced five days later. Operation ...

Denmark will provide an undisclosed number of EH101 helicopters as its main contribution to a multinational task force to bolster security in the Sahel, Shephard has learned. Task Force Takuba was ...

"The first operations have been carried out," French military spokesman Frederic Barbry said of the Swedes, adding that they would stay in Mali until the end of the month. The Swedish parliament ...

Two years after a pan-European military initiative was first proposed to help tackle the Sahel’s Islamist insurgency, the Takuba task force is finally becoming reality, as its first troops arrive amid ...

The military junta in power in Bamako has dealt a serious blow to this coalition of European special forces (supported at arm's length by France) by securing the departure of a hundred Danish soldiers ...