Ansar Dine
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ansar-dine-186-363034
title:
Ansar Dine
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Ansar Dine, meaning "helpers of the religion" (Islam) and also known as Ansar al-Din, was a Salafi jihadist group led by Iyad Ag Ghaly. Ansar Dine sought to impose absolute sharia across Mali. The group took over the city of Timbuktu in 2012, which prompted the French-led intervention, Operation Serval. The organization is not to be confused with the Sufi movement Ançar Dine, founded in Southern Mali in the 1990s by Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara, which is fundamentally opposed to militant Islami
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wiki
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Militant Islamist organization in Mali
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansar_Dine
date created:
2012-03-22T00:16:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T23:10:57Z
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