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Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara
{{Infobox military conflict , conflict=Operation Juniper Shield , partof= the War on terror (Islamist insurgency in the Sahel) , image= , caption=A United States special forces NCO watches weapons marksmanship training for a member of a Malian counter-terrorism unit in December 2010. , date=6 February 2007 – ''ongoing''({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=02, day1=06, year1= 2007) , place= Sahara Desert and North Africa, West Africa , territory= , result= Ongoing , combatant1= {{ALG {{MAR {{flagicon , Mauritania Mauritania{{Flagicon, Tunisia Tunisia{{flagicon, Burkina Faso Burkina Faso{{CHA{{MLI {{NIG{{Flagicon, Nigeria Nigeria{{SEN{{Flagicon, Cameroon Cameroon{{Flagicon, Togo Togo{{Flagicon, Ghana Ghana{{Flagicon, Ivory Coast Ivory Coast{{Flagicon, Benin Benin{{Flagicon, Cape Verde Cape Verde{{Flagicon, The Gambia Gambia{{Flagicon, Guinea Guinea{{Flagicon, Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau{{Flagicon, Liberia Liberia{{Flagicon, Sierra Leone Sierra Leone {{C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War On Terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is an ongoing international Counterterrorism, counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The main targets of the campaign are Militant Islamism, militant Islamist and Salafi jihadism, Salafi-Jihadist armed organisations such as Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and their international affiliates; which are waging military insurgencies to overthrow governments of various Muslim world, Muslim countries. The "war on terror" uses War as metaphor, war as a metaphor to describe a variety of actions which fall outside the traditional definition of war taken to eliminate international terrorism. 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush first used the Slogans and terms derived from the September 11 attacks, term "war on terrorism" on 16 September 2001, and then "war on terror" a few days later in a formal speech to United States Congress, Congress. Bush indica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
