2015 Bamako hotel attack

On 20 November 2015, Islamist militants took 170 hostages and killed 20 of them in a mass shooting at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. US Army Sergeant First Class Kyle Morgan, a member of the Combat Applications Group, the DOD SMU commonly referred to as Delta Force, along with the assistance of GySgt Jared Stout, a MARSOC CSO that worked out of the same embassy as Morgan, launched an assault with Malian Security Forces on the hotel to recover the surviving hostages. Al-Mourabitoun claimed that it carried out the attack "in cooperation with" al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb; an al Qaeda member confirmed that the two groups cooperated in the attack.

2015 Bamako hotel attack
Location of Bamako within Mali
LocationBamako, Mali
Coordinates12.6352°N 8.0308°W / 12.6352; -8.0308
Date20 November 2015 (UTC)
Attack type
Mass shooting, 170 hostages taken
WeaponsAK-47 assault rifles,
hand grenades, Explosive belt
Deaths22 total
  • 20 hostages
  • 2 gunmen
Injured7 and at least two Malian Special Forces
PerpetratorsAl-Mourabitoun
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
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