France expects to begin pulling its troops out of Mali in March, the French foreign minister told the Metro newspaper for a story published today.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said troops will continue operations in northern Mali, where he said "some terrorist havens remain."
At Mali's request, France launched an offensive last month against militants in its former colony. The ground and air campaign has sent Islamist fighters who had seized the northern region fleeing into the vast desert.
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now they will be coming home
lets just hope this doesn"t result in a world war.
We are in now , they will get out.
France would never be willing to go for the long haul and get mauled.
We would of course. We have already said " Mali intervention could take decades".
you are in ? really ? how many soldiers do you have on the ground ? zero !
sending 1 drone and a cargo plane doesnt count as "being in" !
try to be modest from time to time and appeciate that someone is doing the job. France doesnt need US soldiers to achieve the goal of securing Mali.
Wisdom, foresight and sagacity.lol
We have not yet recognized the idiots who rule our destiny from up on Capitol Hill.