{"id":1073259,"date":"2026-07-07T03:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1073259\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:14:32","slug":"russia-sends-weapons-to-help-malis-government-hold-off-rebel-siege-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1073259\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia sends weapons to help Mali\u2019s government hold off rebel siege | Al-Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsFeed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">Al Jazeera\u2019s Nicolas Haque reports from West Africa where the Russian navy is carrying a shipment of weapons to help Mali\u2019s government hold off a rebel advance. Al-Qaeda-linked militants and Tuareg separatists are laying siege to areas of Mali\u2019s north, with Russian-backed forces stepping in to keep Mali\u2019s military junta from collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 7 Jul 20267 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsFeed Al Jazeera\u2019s Nicolas Haque reports from West Africa where the Russian navy is carrying a shipment of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1073260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2740,7795,2743,332,43410,10471,294192],"class_list":["post-1073259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-africa","tag-al-qaeda","tag-mali","tag-russia","tag-senegal","tag-show-types","tag-tuareg"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116876520061096126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}