Islamic State extremists have almost doubled the territory they control in Mali in less than a year, and their al-Qaida-linked rivals are capitalizing on the deadlock and perceived weakness of armed groups that signed a 2015 peace agreement, United Nations experts said in a new report.

The stalled implementation of the peace deal and sustained attacks on communities have offered the IS group and al-Qaida affiliates a chance “to re-enact the 2012 scenario,” they said.

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    1 year ago

    Ok… And?

    Is this one of those posts?

    You know which ones.

    The kind where America is expected to go solve everyone’s problems because no one else will. But the same people who would love to see the US solve the world’s problems, also condemns the US every time it interferes in some other country’s internal affairs.

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      1 year ago

      No we want America to stay at home. The last time they funded radical groups in Syria, in their illegal and failed attempt to unseat the Asad regime, the result was a deluge of refugees in Europe. Nobody wants this kind of help.

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        1 year ago

        We WANT to stay home but that doesn’t stop every mistreated and spoiled group out there begging for American intervention. Lord knows no one can count on the UN or any of the European countries to do anything. They can barely help their own fellow European neighbor after it was invaded. With friends like that…

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          1 year ago

          We got involved in Syria so John Kerry could have a legacy after losing and to get a pipeline built. Like all Middle East adventures the goals were not achieved.

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      1 year ago

      What the other guy said, but also, last time Mali had this problem flair up just a few years ago France did the intervention.

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        1 year ago

        We should never have gotten involved in anything in the Middle East. We did because of oil and Israel.