French anti-jihadist forces in Mali have killed 15 members of the Islamic State group near the volatile border area with Niger, a French army spokesman told AFP on Friday. The team, travelling in a motorcycle convoy, was spotted by a Reaper drone operated by France’s Barkhane military operation on Thursday and later hit by an airstrike. “Verification of various intelligence data allowed confirmation that they were part of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), en route toward the Menaka region,” army spokesman Colonel Pascal Ianni said. France has around 2,400 soldiers in Mali, and 4,…