'Many die' in Mali battle

soldiers from African nations

Thirteen Chadian soldiers and 65 Islamist insurgents accept been dead in abundant angry in a limited allotment of arctic Mali, Chad's aggressive says. 

It says Friday's clashes occurred in the Ifoghas mountains, breadth abounding militants are believed to be hiding.

Last ages France led an operation to advice adios Islamists who bedeviled the all-inclusive arctic arena of Mali in 2012.

The US aggressive says it has deployed surveillance drones in Niger to accumulate advice on the Islamist militants.

The intelligence calm by a 100-strong accidental of US cadre from beyond the bound is getting aggregate with French troops in Mali, who are acceptable bags of troops from African states.

US drones
Islamist rebels are believed to accept aloof to the Ifoghas mountains - a arid breadth in the Kidal arena abreast the bound with Algeria - afterwards getting affected from arctic citizenry centres in contempo weeks.
In a account issued backward on Friday, the Chadian army said it had "destroyed 5 cars and dead 65 jihadists", abacus that 13 of its soldiers had been dead and addition 5 wounded.

Earlier this month, some 1,800 Chadian soldiers began patrolling the city-limits of Kidal.

Chad has apprenticed to forward 2,000 troops to Mali as allotment of the African-led mission.

Fighting amid Islamist insurgents and Malian troops - backed by French soldiers - aswell connected in the axial city-limits of Gao.

On Thursday, the affiliation said it had recaptured the city-limits hall, which had been bedeviled by militants a day earlier.

France intervened in January in its above colony, fearing that al-Qaeda-linked militants who had controlled Mali's arctic back April 2012 were about to beforehand on the basic Bamako.

The French accept said they are planning to alpha abandoning their 4,000 soldiers next month, and would like the African-led accidental to become a UN peacekeeping operation.