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They were able to take control of it, they were able to ruin some of those ancient sites that the world knew, and that prompted the french to carry out air strikes and to put an end to their control of the northern part. that was good news for the central government, which was able to reclaim some of that northern territory and drive out the jihadist militants that were there and disperse them. the problem is that for the ensuing two years, what we saw is a growing wave of terrorist attacks by these rebel groups in the northern part of the country, and on occasion, in the capital bamako. this ...

Restaurants. a u.n. peacekeeping force there targeted and there are u.s. special forces troops that have been in and out of the country assisting those peacekeepers and french troops trying to keep the situation in mali under control. at this point, we can't confirm the number of americans and told any time perhaps hundreds of mitt romneys in the area. aid workers, embassy staff going and going, contractors. a lot of activity there and the bottom line, we hear from u.s. officials is that it's a place that the united states citizens and the media for our part perhaps don't pay enough attention ...

Military coup against the leadership of that country. and it was shortly after that military coup that we saw the northern part of the country fall into the hands of some of these jihadist groups, some of these terrorist groups who began to impose the sharia law and where it gets very interesting and important. it was at that point that the french government launched an international campaign, air strike campaign, to dislodge those terrorist groups from the northern part of the country and try to bring it back under the control of the central government. they were successful in doing that. but...