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Malian Civil War

Date

16 January 2012-

Place

Northern Mali

Outcome

Ongoing

Combatants
Mali France Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde The Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Cote d'Ivoire Liberia Niger Nigeria Sierra Leone Senegal Togo Chad United Nations	MNLA al-Mourabitoun Ansar Dine AQIM MOJWA

Commanders
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita Dioncounda Traore Amadou Sanogo Amadou Toumani Toure Sadio Gassama El Haji Ag Gamou Francois Hollande Edouard Guillaud Thierry Burkhard Gregory de Saint-Quentin Shehu Usman Abdulkadir Yaye Garba Mahamat Deby Itno Abdel Aziz Hassane Adam † Omar Bikomb	Mahmoud Ag Aghaly Bilal Ag Acherif Moussa Ag Acharatoumane Mohamed Ag Najem Mokhtar Belmokhtar Abdelhamid Abou Zeid † Abdelmalek Droukdel Abou Haq Younousse † Ahmed al-Tilemsi † Iyad Ag Ghaly Omar Ould Hamaha †

The Malian Civil War (16 January 2012-) was fought between the Malian government, several African nations, French Army troops, and United Nations peacekeepers and Islamist rebels and their Azawad independence co-belligerents. In January 2012, a rebellion in northern Mali began as several Tuaregs - many of them returning mercenary veterans of the Libyan Civil War - rebelled against the government of Amadou Toumani Toure with the goal of creating an independent Tuareg state of Azawad in the north, separating northern Mali from the indigenous African south. In March 2012, Toure was overthrown in a military coup due to his incompetence, and the constitution was suspended, delving Mali into anarchy. Kidal, Gao, and Timbuktu were overrun by the rebels, and the MNLA declared the independence of Azawad on 6 April 2017. However, Islamist groups such as Ansar Dine took advantage of the rebellion to declare sharia law in territories controlled by them, and the MNLA and Islamists failed to agree on the creation of a united Azawad, leading to an Islamist offensive that took over much of northern Mali and ended the independent state of Azawad. In January 2013, France began a military intervention against the Islamists, who destroyed Sufi shrines and historical sites, and forces from other African Union states also arrived to assist the government. By 8 February 2013, the Islamist-held territories had been returned to government control, and ceasefire agreements were made with the rebels in 2013 and in 2015. After a 19 February 2015 ceasefire was declared between the Malian government and the MNLA, the Azawad independence movement lost its strength, but Islamist militants continued to carry out sporadic terrorist attacks and ambushes against the government forces, even as French Army forces slowly withdrew.

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 |side2 = [[File:MNLA.png|25px]] [[National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad|MNLA]]<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[al-Mourabitoun]]<Br>[[File:Ansar Dine.jpg|25px]] [[Ansar Dine]]<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb|AQIM]]<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa|MOJWA]]
 |commanders1 = [[File:Flag of Mali.png|25px]] [[Ibrahim Boubacar Keita]]<br>[[File:Flag of Mali.png|25px]] [[Dioncounda Traore]]<br>[[File:Flag of Mali.png|25px]] [[Amadou Sanogo]]<br>[[File:Flag of Mali.png|25px]] [[Amadou Toumani Toure]]<br>[[File:Flag of Mali.png|25px]] [[Sadio Gassama]]<br>[[File:Flag of Mali.png|25px]] [[El Haji Ag Gamou]]<br>[[File:Flag of France 2.png|25px]] [[Francois Hollande]]<br>[[File:Flag of France 2.png|25px]] [[Edouard Guillaud]]<br>[[File:Flag of France 2.png|25px]] [[Thierry Burkhard]]<br>[[File:Flag of France 2.png|25px]] [[Gregory de Saint-Quentin]]<br>[[File:Flag of Nigeria.png|25px]] [[Shehu Usman Abdulkadir]]<br>[[File:Flag of Niger.png|25px]] [[Yaye Garba]]<br>[[File:Flag of Chad.png|25px]] [[Mahamat Deby Itno]]<br>[[File:Flag of Chad.png|25px]] [[Abdel Aziz Hassane Adam]] &dagger;<br>[[File:Flag of Chad.png|25px]] [[Omar Bikomb]]
-|commanders2 = [[File:MNLA.png|25px]] [[Mahmoud Ag Aghaly]]<br>[[File:MNLA.png|25px]] [[Bilal Ag Acherif]]<br>[[File:MNLA.png|25px]] [[Moussa Ag Acharatoumane]]<br>[[File:MNLA.png|25px]] [[Mohamed Ag Najem]]<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[Mokhtar Belmokhtar]]<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[Abdelhamid Abou Zeid]] &dagger;<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[Abdelmalek Droukdel]]<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[Abou Haq Younousse]] &dagger;<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[Ahmed al-Tilemsi]] &dagger;<br>[[File:Ansar Dine.jpg|25px]] [[Iyad Ag Ghaly]]<Br>[[File:Ansar Dine.jpg|25px]] [[Omar Ould Hamaha]] &dagger;}}The '''Malian Civil War''' (16 January 2012-) was fought between the [[Malia]]n government, several [[Africa]]n nations, [[French Army]] troops, and [[United Nations]] peacekeepers and [[Islamist]] rebels and their [[Azawad]] independence co-belligerents. In January 2012, a rebellion in northern Mali began as several [[Tuaregs]] - many of them returning mercenary veterans of the [[Libyan Civil War]] - rebelled against the government of [[Amadou Toumani Toure]] with the goal of creating an independent Tuareg state of Azawad in the north, separating northern Mali from the indigenous African south. In March 2012, Toure was overthrown in a military coup due to his incompetence, and the constitution was suspended, delving Mali into anarchy. Kidal, Gao, and Timbuktu were overrun by the rebels, and the MNLA declared the independence of Azawad on 6 April 2017. However, [[Islamist]] groups such as [[Ansar Dine]] took advantage of the rebellion to declare ''[[sharia]]'' law in territories controlled by them, and the MNLA and Islamists failed to agree on the creation of a united Azawad, leading to an Islamist offensive that took over much of northern Mali and ended the independent state of Azawad. In January 2013, [[France]] began a military intervention against the Islamists, who destroyed [[Sufi]] shrines and historical sites, and forces from other [[African Union]] states also arrived to assist the government. By 8 February 2013, the Islamist-held territories had been returned to government control, and ceasefire agreements were made with the rebels in 2013 and in 2015. After a 19 February 2015 ceasefire was declared between the Malian government and the MNLA, the Azawad independence movement lost its strength, but Islamist militants continued to carry out sporadic terrorist attacks and ambushes against the government forces, even as [[French Army]] forces slowly withdrew.
+|commanders2 = [[File:MNLA.png|25px]] [[Mahmoud Ag Aghaly]]<br>[[File:MNLA.png|25px]] [[Bilal Ag Acherif]]<br>[[File:MNLA.png|25px]] [[Moussa Ag Acharatoumane]]<br>[[File:MNLA.png|25px]] [[Mohamed Ag Najem]]<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[Mokhtar Belmokhtar]]<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[Abdelhamid Abou Zeid]] &dagger;<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[Abdelmalek Droukdel]]<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[Abou Haq Younousse]] &dagger;<br>[[File:ISIS.png|25px]] [[Ahmed al-Tilemsi]] &dagger;<br>[[File:Ansar Dine.jpg|25px]] [[Iyad Ag Ghaly]]<Br>[[File:Ansar Dine.jpg|25px]] [[Omar Ould Hamaha]] &dagger;}}The '''Malian Civil War''' (16 January 2012-) was fought between the [[Mali]]an government, several [[Africa]]n nations, [[French Army]] troops, and [[United Nations]] peacekeepers and [[Islamist]] rebels and their [[Azawad]] independence co-belligerents. In January 2012, a rebellion in northern Mali began as several [[Tuaregs]] - many of them returning mercenary veterans of the [[Libyan Civil War]] - rebelled against the government of [[Amadou Toumani Toure]] with the goal of creating an independent Tuareg state of Azawad in the north, separating northern Mali from the indigenous African south. In March 2012, Toure was overthrown in a military coup due to his incompetence, and the constitution was suspended, delving Mali into anarchy. Kidal, Gao, and Timbuktu were overrun by the rebels, and the MNLA declared the independence of Azawad on 6 April 2017. However, [[Islamist]] groups such as [[Ansar Dine]] took advantage of the rebellion to declare ''[[sharia]]'' law in territories controlled by them, and the MNLA and Islamists failed to agree on the creation of a united Azawad, leading to an Islamist offensive that took over much of northern Mali and ended the independent state of Azawad. In January 2013, [[France]] began a military intervention against the Islamists, who destroyed [[Sufi]] shrines and historical sites, and forces from other [[African Union]] states also arrived to assist the government. By 8 February 2013, the Islamist-held territories had been returned to government control, and ceasefire agreements were made with the rebels in 2013 and in 2015. After a 19 February 2015 ceasefire was declared between the Malian government and the MNLA, the Azawad independence movement lost its strength, but Islamist militants continued to carry out sporadic terrorist attacks and ambushes against the government forces, even as [[French Army]] forces slowly withdrew.
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