On January 28, about two hundred legionnaires of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) jumped north of Timbuktu, the ancient trading city in Mali and an important point controlled by Islamists.

In Timbuktu, paratroopers of the Foreign Legion joined the French troops that have already been operating in Mali, including legionnaires of the 1er REC, to help them to push the Islamists out and to take control over the city.

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