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 ...

This analysis of JNIM was published in 2018 and is not being updated. For a more recent analysis of JNIM from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program, please click here. JNIM, whose name ...

A month after I left Timbuktu, Mali officials, under pressure from the French government, freed four AQIM suspects in exchange for the Frenchman. The Italian couple was released, as were the ...

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 ...