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How many French casualties resulted from the Rif attacks in 1925?

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Spanish soldiers operate artillery cannons in a desert landscape near Melilla, with smoke billowing as a cannon fires during a 1930s battle. — Rif War Spanish artillery firing outside Melilla during the Rif War.

During the Rif War, the Rif forces led by Abd el-Krim launched an offensive into the French protectorate in 1925. In these initial attacks, which caught the French off guard and endangered the urban centers of Fès and Taza, Rif fighters inflicted approximately 6,000 to 6,200 French casualties.12

While these specific 1925 attacks accounted for several thousand losses, total French casualties throughout the duration of the conflict are estimated to be as high as 18,000 killed, missing, or wounded.3