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Al Qaeda claims to have killed 50 Russian mercenaries and 10 Malian soldiers

BAMAKO: An al-Qaeda affiliate said it killed 50 Russian Wagner mercenaries and 10 Malian soldiers in an ambush in Mali’s northern Kidal region near the Algerian border on Saturday, according to the SITE intelligence group. The ambush came on the same day a Tuareg rebel movement known as the Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security and Development (CSP-PSD) said it had killed and wounded dozens of Malian soldiers and Wagner mercenaries during days of fighting in the border town. Tinjawaten. The death toll is a major blow, amounting to what appears to be Wagner’s heaviest defeat since he intervened two