Reports that the local armed nomad Touareg people are the main motive force behind the events in the area have failed to be proved.
The main fighting force is made up of Algerian, Nigerian, Somali and Pakistani terrorists, the paper writes.
According to the periodical, the north of Mali has turned into a training base for Al-Qaeda units.
TASS
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