Militants Carry Out Deadly Attacks in Burkina Faso<br />Targets could include hotels, restaurants, police stations, customs offices, military posts,<br />and schools." Blaise Compaoré, the longtime president of Burkina Faso, a former French colony once known as Upper Volta, was ousted in a popular uprising in late 2014; a coup was mounted the following year but ultimately failed.<br />By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and JAIME YAYA BARRYMARCH 2, 2018<br />Militants carried out simultaneous attacks on Friday morning on the military headquarters of Burkina Faso<br />and the French Embassy in the nation’s capital, the government said.<br />President Emmanuel Macron of France called President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso<br />and condemned the attack in "the strongest terms," Mr. Macron’s office said in a statement.<br />It appeared to be another stunning assault by Islamist militants in Burkina Faso, a West African nation<br />that has suffered two big deadly attacks by jihadists in the past two years.<br />France leads a 5,000-member multinational force — including troops from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad<br />and Mauritania — that is trying to combat terrorism in the region.<br />The assault on the military headquarters appeared to have been aimed at a gathering of senior officers, according to Security Minister Clément Sawadogo, who told journalists<br />that the army might have been "decapitated" had the meeting not been fortuitously moved to a different location at the last minute.<br />" it said in a travel advisory. that Terrorist groups continue plotting attacks in Burkina Faso,
