Operation Serval of the ground and the populations". Mathieu Guidère, a scholar of Islam and the Arab world at the University of Toulouse, said in an interview published in the newsmagazine Jeune Afrique, that without the French military intervention the state of Mali would have fallen. France's stated rationale for the operation is that to do otherwise would allow "a terrorist state at the doorstep of France and Europe." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the intervention in a phone call with French President François Hollande as "a brave step against extremist Islamic terrorism". Egypt's former President Mohammed Morsi, an Islamist, criticized
Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia a draught of 1.2 meters. They had a top speed of 5.5 knots generated by two-shaft diesel engines and were each armed with two 152 mm guns. On 27 March/9 April, the Moldavian Democratic Republic united with Romania. Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia The Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia took place between 10/23 January and 7/20 February 1918, as part of the broader Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The Romanian Army, supported by local armed groups, emerged victorious and the former Russian imperial region of Bessarabia - having declared its independence as the Moldavian Democratic Republic - united