Ansar al-Din maintained a powerful position in collaboration with AQIM during the rapid push to take control of northern Mali. The group largely governed Kidal and was very present in Timbuktu ...

A spokesman for Ansar Dine – a Tuareg front group for AQIM in Mali – said that AQIM’s Sahara Emirate was responsible for the kidnapping, according to AFP. The Sahara Emirate is led by Abu Yahya al ...

In the case of Mali, violent extremists helped precipitate state collapse. In the last three years, both Boko Haram and AQIM have come under increasing pressure, a result of regional and international ...

The MNLA occupied part of northern Mali and declared a ‘capital’ of its new state ... However, the MNLA has been consistently weakened by internal strife as well as attacks by AQIM and other armed ...