A rebel spokesman says drone strikes by Mali’s military regime have killed eight Tuareg rebel leaders in the north of the country

Mali's government said on Sunday it had killed a senior Tuareg rebel commander and other rebels in a drone strike on a town in the north of the country. A Reuters journalist in Tinzaouaten on the border with Algeria witnessed the strike on the town,

An army drone strike in northern Mali killed several Tuareg rebels on Sunday morning, Chodi Ag, a mission manager at the communications ministry, and a Reuters witness said. (Reporting by Abdollah Ag Mohamed;