Military history of France intervention in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi. The year after, France intervened in Mali during that country's civil war, as Islamist militants appeared to threaten the south after seizing control of the arid north. Changes in the government of France, including Socialist François Hollande becoming president in 2012 after years of center-right governance, have done little to alter Paris' foreign policy in Africa. Hollande also proposed French military involvement in the Syrian civil war in the wake of chemical attacks French intelligence reports linked to the forces of President Bashar al-Assad in mid-2013. France has encouraged military cooperation at an EU
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