Iyad Ag Ghali, the central leader of the 1990 rebellion in Mali, formed Ansar al-Din in late 2011. The group quickly emerged around a core of Ifoghas Tuareg and longtime companions of Ag Ghali, ...

According to data compiled by FDD’s Long War Journal, this means there have been at least 60 al Qaeda-linked attacks in Mali and neighboring countries so far this year. JNIM was formed earlier this ...

Prosecutors say he was a key member of Ansar Dine, an Islamic extremist group with links to al-Qaida that held power in northern Mali at the time. Women and girls suffered in particular under ...

An al Qaeda-linked militant group has said it is still waging war in Mali, dismissing a report that it had agreed a ceasefire as "completely baseless". Ansar Dine released a statement expressing ...