The Invisible Front of Islamic Terrorism

... carried out in January–February 2013 (officially it was completed in July 2014) and quickly defeated the Tuaregs, who by then were already in conflict with the Islamists. Among them was AQIM, which wanted to create a Caliphate in northern Mali. France then turned over the peacekeeping mission to the United Nations. Today MINUSMA has a staff of 11,500. Prototype of the New Islamic Threat RIA Novosti / Dmitry Vinogradov Irina Zviagelskaya: Russia in a Changing Middle East The Islamist group Al-Mourabitoun, which claimed responsibility for the latest terrorist attack in Bamako, was formed in early 2013 on the basis of two breakaway factions of AQIM and other Islamist groups. Most of their members are Algerians and Tunisians and their declared ...