Insurgency in the Maghreb (1 jan 2003 ano – 1 maio 2008 ano)

Descrição:

Geography: Maghreb, Sahara desert
Duration: 2002-present
Warring Factions:
Algeria
Mauritania
Tunisia
Libya
Morocco

Insurgents:
Al-Qaeda
Local factions, AQIM, Ansar al Sharia in Tunisia, Uqba ibn Nafi Brigade
GSPC (Algerian)
Ansar al Sharia (Libyan)
Salafia Jihadia (Moroccan)
ISIS
Local factions, Libya, Algerian, Malian

Supports:
With governments:
France
USA
UK
Sweden
Netherlands
Germany
Denmark
Portugal
Czech Republic
Russia
Turkey

With insurgents:
Alleged Saudi and Qatari involvement in IS funding

Description: The Algerian group Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) allied itself with Al Qaeda near the end of the civil war, and continued to fight in the form of insurgent attacks, with other rebel groups, against the people and governments of the maghreb. It carried out an assassination campaign in the early months of the insurgency. Over 5 years, along with foreign assistance, Algerian police and armed forces were able to declare an end to terrorism, but with the Arab spring and the weakening of public order in neighbouring Libya after the fall of the government, insurgents moved many of their operations and continued terror campaigns primarily outside of Algeria.

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