CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin November 20, 2015 20:06:00
2012. can you just give me more historic context and also its ties to the french? >> i mean, it used to be a french colony. there's a natural tie there. in 2012, 2013 this al qaeda group went in there and actually took over more land than any terrorist group had ever controlled up until that point. since then isis has gone then to quantum levels beyond that. but for awhile, mali was a real focus of antiterrorists attention because of this concentration there. but throughout africa whether it's in mali or boko haram in nigeria or the horn of africa, you see extremist groups. they are active the...
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