France says its military operations in the African nation of Mali have stopped the advance of Islamist militants.
"Stopping the terrorists, that's done," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told RTL radio on Sunday.
Without France's intervention, the Islamists would have advanced to Bamako, the Malian capital, he said.
French warplanes on Sunday bombed the town of Gao, in the east of the country. The Associated Press reports that the town's airport and training camps used by al-Qaida-linked rebels were targeted.
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