🇲🇱⚡- FLA + JNIM are clashing with the Malian military, FAMa, at various positions across the Mopti region, central Mali, as well.

🇲🇱🇷🇺 - Footage allegedly shows a Russian airstrike on Anefis, northern Mali.

🇲🇱🇷🇺 - Scenes from Gao, northern Mali. FLA + JNIM is seen clashing with the Malian military, FAMa, and Russia's African Corps.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡- Large FLA + JNIM convoys entering the city of Anefis, northern Mali.

🇲🇱⚡️- Most of the initial battles have seemingly stopped according to local reports. Sévaré was successfully defended by the FAMa and Africa Corps. Gao still has sporadic firefights. Anéfis fell to the FLA, and Aguelhoc fell silent earlier.

New skirmishes are now reported in Konna, Kouakourou, lere and Bamba.

🇲🇱⚡️- The JNIM claimed to have seized Konna.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡️- JNIM+FLA sources have claimed the Africa Corps in Aguelhoc, Anéfis and Gao have attempted to negotiate conditional retreats from their positions, as they had done after the initial offensive earlier this year.

To note, Africa Corps has still not confirmed they had reached agreements to retreat from several bases following Kidal's fall, despite video evidence of their convoys abandoning their camps.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡️- According to locals, the Africa Corps conducted air raids on numerous insurgent positions this morning. Airstrikes were reported on JNIM+FLA troops in Anéfis, Gao and Sévaré.

A Tuareg civilian nomadic camp in Timbuktu's region was also struck.

🇲🇱⚡️- The FAMa have issued a statement saying the situation was "fully under control" in northern Mali, precising insurgents were repelled in Gao and Sévaré. No data was given on the other seven locations where the FLA+JNIM carried out attacks, nor have they commented on their captured soldiers in Anéfis.

🇺🇸⚡️- For the first of our 4th of July celebration posts, one of our admins favorite passages from Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585–1828 by Walter A. McDougall.

American Exceptionalism is the rule of reality.

🇲🇱⚡️- The junta's outlets claim the attack on Kéniéroba's prison center was repelled.

🇲🇱⚡️- FLA+JNIM outlets claim they successfully broke out numerous prisoners from Kéniéroba's prison. The attached video shows the prison in the early hours of the morning from the point of view of a JNIM fighter.

🇲🇱🇹🇷⚡️- A cargo plane belonging to the Turkish Air Force did a quick back and forth on July 2nd, landing in Sévaré's air strip.

🇺🇸⚡️- New York Democrat Mariama James gives her thoughts on the DSA calling them a White Supremacist "I know better than you" organization trying to impose themselves on non-Whites.

Should be noted that the GOP is making similar arguments.

🇲🇱⚡️- According to journalists in Mali, the FLA+JNIM offensive's purpose was to capture Anéfis alongside a few key positions on certain roads in northern Mali. The battles of Gao and Sévaré were designed to harass Africa Corps and FAMa troops. The prison break attempt in Kéniéroba was supposed to allow the JNIM to capture a high-profile prison guard close to Bamako's elite. The JNIM arrived at Kéniéroba's prison center and encountered no resistance but left without freeing any inmate.

Negotiations between the FLA and Africa Corps forces were underway at some point, but no clear agreement was reached. The FLA has bombarded several Africa Corps positions with suicide drones after negotiations broke down.

The offensive reportedly scaled back and is now consisting only of new skirmishes in Timbuktu's region.