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
American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War Council's approval - a grave violation of international law - but at that point they at least tried to show some material evidence." American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War The American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War refers to the US invasion and partial military occupation of Syria, support of Syrian opposition and the Federation of Northern Syria during the course of the Syrian Civil War, and active involvement of the US military against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and against the al-Nusra Front from 2014. Since 2017, the US and some other coalition nations have