“the group appears to be applying lessons picked up from an Islamist triumph on a distant battlefield: Syria, where militant leader-turned-president Ahmed al-Sharaa swept to power in 2024 after breaking with al-Qaeda and recasting himself as a more moderate Islamist.” www.ft.com/content/c19f...
Mali’s JNIM is seeking to apply lessons from Syria’s Islamist revolution in an offensive that is bringing it ever closer to power
