UN Mission Ends Decade of Deployment in Mali

FILE - Policemen of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) patrol in front of the Great Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, Dec. 8, 2021.

The U.N. mission in Mali ended a decade of deployment in the crisis-wracked country on Sunday, meeting a December 31 deadline agreed after Mali's military leaders ordered it to leave.