Battle of Goumakoura

Name: Battle of Goumakoura
Start: 2012

2012 CE.

Shown on the map at 13.717°, -5.933°.

On 8 February 2012, rebel forces from the separatist National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) attacked a military outpost in Tinzaouaten located near the Algeria–Mali border. The battle led to the capture of the commune by MNLA rebels. A Malian government statement was released the following day declaring a "strategic retreat" from its base in Tinzaouaten. A Malian soldier was killed. Ten were captured and 37 defected and were retrieved by Algerian authorities.

Text from the Wikipedia article Battle of Tinzaouaten (2012), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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