2018 Timbuktu attack

MINUSMA super camp attack
	Part of the Northern Mali conflict
Date	14 April 2018
Location	Timbuktu Airport, Timbuktu, Mali
Result	MINUSMA victory
Belligerents
MINUSMA Burkina Faso; Côte d'Ivoire; United States; El Salvador; France	JNIM
Casualties and losses
:; 1 killed; 7 wounded; :; 7 wounded	15 killed
	2 civilians killed

On 14 April 2018, militants attacked the MINUSMA base in Timbuktu Airport, known informally as the "super camp". The JNIM later claimed responsibility for the attack, in reprisal for the deaths of some of their commanders in clashes that occurred about a week earlier.

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