THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO TERORIS

history – formed in November 2011 for a Tuareg rebel group underneath Iyad Ag Ghali and in mid-2012 began an Affiliation with al-Qai'da inside the Islamic Maghrib (AQIM), in part thanks to their shared desire to put into action Islamic regulation in Mali; was One of the terrorist groups to get around northern Mali adhering to the March 2012 coup