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To Long War Journal, Bill Raggio, the Senior Fellow for the Foundation for the defense of democracies keeps the

long war journal watching the jihadist from the Hindu Kush to the Mediterranean

and south to sub-Saharan Africa and that is the headline that requires interpretation.

To Arag rebels, J&I am, each claimed victory over Russia's Wagner group in Mali.

I welcome Bill to help us unpack this because we're

looking at a major development in sub-Saharan Africa, the Russian mercenaries and their allies in the Mali government have been

successfully overrun by a combination of the jihad al-Qaeda and the Tuareg who are separate peoples from

much of South Sub-Saharan Africa and were responsible for driving the French Foreign Legion out some years back.

Bill, a very good evening to you.

Please help me understand this ambush.

What was the scale of it? What do we know? Good evening. understand this is

is a very

good evening to you

evening John yes this is a very interesting development so the

malian army and vaguner group were operating in the very northern part of Mali, which is a very remote region, desert region.

And they were operating in an area where they were primarily supported by air.

The Tarigs ambush them or that basically they cut off that air bridge, which caused to have cause the Wagner in the

Malayan military to have trouble and then they launched their ambush destroyed

dozens of vehicles, up to 80 Wagner fighters are reported to have been killed.

I've seen 20 confirmed, several held hostage. It was a very very significant event for Vogner's is probably

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