Syria-Ukraine, Mali, Yemen.

Today's three stories you should know.

Syria-Ukraine

It didn’t see close to the coverage that Russia’s increasingly brutal bombardment of Ukraine is getting but Moscow has done this before - recently and more brutally in Syria. Al Jazeera today carried a piece in which it spoke to Syrians who have long endured Russian air attacks. “I’m glad to see the world is finally starting to pay attention to what Russia is doing,” one said. “It would be better if they also saw what they were and still are doing in Syria, but we hope [Putin] could finally be held accountable so that at least another form of justice could be delivered to us Syrians.”

More from Al Jazeera here.

Mali

Twenty-seven Malian soldiers and 47 “terrorists” were killed when an armed group attacked a military base, Mali’s army said today. As mentioned in previous newsletters, Mali’s government has been locked in conflict with armed groups linked to al-Qaeda and ISIS for more than a decade and about two-thirds of the country is outside of its control. The war has also spread to neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger.

More from Africa News here.

Yemen

A German and a Mexican working for aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) have been kidnapped by gunmen in Yemen, according to a report from the Reuters news agency. A security source told Reuters that the aid workers were taken from their car by men believed to be linked to the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula group. The United Nations estimates that 377,000 people have died since Yemen’s ruinous war - one of the world’s most under-reported - erupted seven years ago, either on the battlefield or from starvation and disease.

More from Reuters via The New Arab here.