Operation Serval and Omar Ould Hamaha were killed, while Mokhtar Belmokhtar fled to Libya and Iyad ag Ghali fled to Algeria. The operation is named after the medium-sized African wild cat species Serval. In January 2012, following an influx of weapons that occurred after the Libyan Civil War, Tuareg tribesmen of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) began a rebellion against Mali's central government. In April, the MNLA said it had accomplished its goals and called off its offensive against the government, proclaiming the independence of Azawad. In June 2012, the MNLA came into conflict with the Islamist groups
German intervention against ISIL "Augsburg" joined the naval task force of French carrier "Charles de Gaulle". The Bremen-class frigate F213 "Augsburg" from the German Navy was part of the French aircraft carrier 's task force. German intervention against ISIL The German intervention against ISIL was authorized on 4 December 2015. The involvement of the country in the Syrian Civil War and the Iraqi Civil War began with the Bundeswehr mission in Syria and Iraq (codenamed Operation Counter Daesh, under the aegis of "Operation Inherent Resolve") to combat the terrorist organization ISIL. The mission was primarily created as a reaction to the November 2015 Paris