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Operation Barkhane

BelligerentsFranceG5 SahelBurkina FasoChadMali (until August 2022)MauritaniaNigerEstoniaSwedenCzech RepublicSupported by:United KingdomCanadaUnited StatesDenmarkAQIMNusrat al-Islam(2017–2022)Al-Mourabitoun(2014–17)Ansar Dine(2014–17) IS-GS(2015–2022)Commanders and leadersEmmanuel Macron(President of France, from 2017)Élisabeth Borne(Prime Minister of France, from 2022)Assimi Goïta(President of Mali, from 2021)Abdoulaye Maïga(Prime Minister of Mali, from 2022)Mohamed Bazoum(President of Niger, from 2021)Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou(Prime Minister of Niger, from 2021)Ibrahim Traoré(President of Burkina Faso, from 2022)Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla(Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, from 2022)Mohamed Ould Ghazouani(President of Mauritania, from 2019)Mohamed Ould Bilal(Prime Minister of Mauritania, from 2020)Mahamat Déby(President of Chad, from 2021)Saleh Kebzabo(Prime Minister of Chad, from 2022)Alar Karis(President of Estonia, from 2021)Kaja Kallas(Prime Minister of Estonia, from 2021)Charles III(King of the United Kingdom and Canada, from 2022)Rishi Sunak(Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 2022)Robert Ben Lobban Wallace(Secretary of State for Defence, from 2019)Justin Trudeau(Prime Minister of Canada, from 2015) Anita Anand(Minister of National Defence, from 2021) Joe Biden(President of the United States, from 2021)Lloyd Austin(United States Secretary of Defense, from 2021)Margrethe II(Queen of Denmark, from 2014)Mette Frederiksen(Prime Minister of Denmark, from 2019)Miloš Zeman(President of the Czech Republic, from 2014)Petr Fiala(Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, from 2021)Carl XVI Gustaf(King of Sweden, from 2014)Ulf Kristersson(Prime Minister of Sweden, from 2022) Former:François HollandeManuel VallsBernard CazeneuveÉdouard PhilippeJean CastexIbrahim Boubacar KeïtaBah NdawMoussa MaraModibo KeitaAbdoulaye Idrissa MaïgaSoumeylou Boubèye MaïgaBoubou CisséMoctar OuaneChoguel Kokalla MaïgaMahamadou IssoufouBrigi RafiniBlaise CompaoréHonoré TraoréYacouba Isaac ZidaMichel KafandoGilbert DiendéréChérif SyRoch Marc Christian KaboréPaul-Henri Sandaogo DamibaLuc-Adolphe TiaoYacouba Isaac ZidaPaul Kaba ThiebaChristophe Joseph Marie DabiréLassina ZerboAlbert OuédraogoMohamed Ould Abdel AzizMoulaye Ould Mohamed LaghdafYahya Ould HademineMohamed Salem Ould BéchirIsmail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh SidiyaIdriss Déby†Kalzeubet Pahimi DeubetAlbert Pahimi PadackéKersti KaljulaidToomas Hendrik IlvesTaavi RõivasJüri RatasElizabeth IIDavid CameronTheresa MayBoris JohnsonLiz TrussPhilip HammondMichael FallonGavin WilliamsonPenny MordauntStephen HarperRobert NicholsonJason KenneyBarack ObamaDonald TrumpChuck HagelAsh CarterJim MattisMark EsperHelle Thorning-SchmidtLars Løkke RasmussenBohuslav SobotkaAndrej BabišFredrik ReinfeldtStefan LöfvenMagdalena AnderssonIyad Ag GhalyDjamel Okacha†Mokhtar Belmokhtar†Abdelmalek Droukdel† Yahia Djouadi †Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi† Oumeya Ould Albakaye (POW)Strength 3,000 troops (since 2022)5,500 troops (at peak) 95 troops 90 troops3 heavy lift helicopters 70 troops 2 heavy lift helicopters 150 troops 3 medium-lift helicopters, 1 C-130 6,000 fighters (all groups)Casualties and losses 53 killed 6 wounded 4 killed, 2 wounded 2,800+ killedUnknown wounded and capturedOperation Barkhane (French: Opération Barkhane) was a counterinsurgency operation that started on 1 August 2014 and formally ended on 9 November 2022.

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