Mali War

The Mali War is an ongoing conflict that began on 16 January 2012 with a Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali. The rebels included the secular-oriented National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), a group fighting for independence or greater autonomy of a region they called Azawad. The MNLA was initially allied with the jihadist Ansar Dine, which, in turn, was allied to other Salafi jihadist organizations such as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its splinter, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA).

Quotes

• This is not a containment mission, this is an eradication mission.
  • Abdul-Kadir reacts
• You can see that by the way they operate. They operate in pockets, and that tells you that their center of gravity is hit and hit badly and that's why they've retired to the mountains and the forest,
  • Abdul-Kadir speaks