Operation Serval it had lost a few days earlier. French airstrikes appeared to stop the rebel advance to the south which prompted the intervention and destroyed an Ansar Dine command post near Konna. France asked the U.S. to speed up its contribution by sending drones to improve surveillance over the vast area of northern Mali. The Pentagon was reported to have studied the French request. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom announced that his country would lend logistical support to the operation. ECOWAS troops preparing to deploy to Mali also decided to move up their arrival date to January 14
Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia The Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia took place between 10/23 January and 7/20 February 1918, as part of the broader Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The Romanian Army, supported by local armed groups, emerged victorious and the former Russian imperial region of Bessarabia - having declared its independence as the Moldavian Democratic Republic - united with Romania later that year. On 2/15 December 1917, Moldavia proclaimed itself a constituent republic of the Russian Federative Democratic Republic. On 1/14 January 1918, the Front Section of the Rumcherod Bolsheviks entered Chișinău, the capital of the