US, UN Condemn Mali Attack Claimed by Al-Qaida

The United States has condemned "in the strongest possible terms" Thursday's ambush on a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers in Mali, in which six people were killed and five more were wounded. The attack took place on a road about 45 kilometers southwest of the city of Timbuktu in Mali's restive northern desert. The extremist group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for the ambush. In a statement late Thursday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha...

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