French soldiers killed more than thirty Islamist militants in Mali in three separate operations on Thursday and Friday targeting al Qaeda and Islamic State-linked groups.France, the former colonial power in a number of West African countries, has about four thousand, five hundred  soldiers in the region in its counter-terrorism taskforce Operation Barkhane.
 The United Nations has a thirteen thousand strong peacekeeping operation in Mali.In the Gourma region, soldiers of the French Barkhane force killed about twenty militants and destroyed several vehicles, while in the Liptako region, a stronghold of Islamic State, ten more were killed.The operations involved a drone, warplanes and two helicopters.
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