Hudson Institute: "Danger at Senegal’s Gates: The Jihadist Expansion toward Southwestern Mali"

Militants of The Movement for the Salvation of Azawad stand on a dune in the deserted area of the Meneka region in Mali during an anti jihadist patrol on February 4, 2018. (Souleymane Ag Anara/AFP via Getty Images)

Mali’s present war officially began in January 2012, when ethnic Tuareg fighters targeted several military camps in the north of the country.…