Bamako, June 29 -- The Malian army has announced the capture of a leader from the Islamic
State in the Grand Sahara and his bodyguard in northern Mali.
In a statement on Saturday, the army said the arrests occurred during a clash in the Cha-Mane area, without identifying who were captured.
Intelligence operations enabled security forces to catch the terrorist off guard while he was assembling and coercing local residents as part of a forced awareness campaign, the statement
said, noting that the captured leader is "of foreign nationality."
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