A growing terrorist coalition in Mali, comprising FLA-JNIM The growing terrorist coalition in Mali, comprising FLA-JNIM, does not yet match ISIS at its 2014 peak; however, JNIM is strangling the Malian state from within, blockading fuel supplies, taxing rural communities, coordinating with separatists, and positioning for negotiation rather than outright conquest. On April 25, 2026, Mali suffered the largest coordinated jihadist attack in its history, as two armed groups, the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Tuareg separatist Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), struck simultaneously from the capital, Bamako, to the northern city of Kidal, roughly 1,500 km away. The attack is the latest in a region that now leads the world in terrorist attacks. The Sahel, a band of West African states including Mali, Burkina…
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