The man killed with him was armed, the spokesman said.
The military operation in Kidal itself was "ongoing" on Wednesday, according to French armed forces spokesman Colonel Thierry Burkhard in Paris.
"The military forces announce that the hero pilot, Muadh al-Kasasbeh, has fallen as a martyr, and ask God to accept him with the martyrs," said armed forces spokesman Mamdouh al-Ameri.
"According to our information, those who were hit were armed men," the spokesman said.
Stephen Coon, 19, his older brother, was arrested in connection with an armed robbery, said a spokesman for the police, Lt. Thomas Stacho.
Three days later the frigate Carr was forced to use its ship's horn to ward off three Iranian small boats, two of which were armed, according to Navy spokesmen.
An army spokesman declared the armed response a success, saying the militants – who were wearing the uniforms of the airport security force (ASF) – "were confined to two areas and eliminated".
"The human carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists in Baga was enormous," Muhammad Abba Gava, a spokesman for poorly armed civilians in a defence group that fights Boko Haram, told the Associated Press.
Surgeons could not reattach the arm, a spokesman for the hospital, John Dunn, said.
"We think it's a pretty darn clear call to arms," the spokesman, R.C. Hammond, told NBC News before the South Carolina vote.
