Top al-Qaeda commander Djamel Okacha is killed in `spectacular´ ambush after years-long manhunt, France says
(WorldNews France)

French armed forces have killed a top jihadist leader in an air and ground ambush in Mali, the government said on Friday, ending a years-long hunt for a man accused of masterminding the kidnapping of Westerners in the Sahel region.Djamel Okacha, an Algerian commander in al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), was killed on Thursday after French commandos, helicopters and a drone hit a column of vehicles he was travelling north of Timbuktu, French officials said.Okacha, a jihadist veteran known… ......