ABIDJAN/BAMAKO—French forces killed 33 ISIS extremists in Mali on Saturday using attack helicopters, ground troops, and a drone near the border with Mauritania, where a group linked to al-Qaeda operates, French authorities said.
The raid about 90 miles northwest of Mopti in Mali targeted the same forest area where France wrongly claimed last year it had killed Amadou Koufa, one of the most senior ISIS terrorists being hunted by French forces in the Sahel.
