Operation Serval France's intervention. On January 26, during the CELAC and European Union summit in Santiago de Chile, Colombia and Chile both expressed support for the French military intervention in Mali. Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, stated that "Colombia has suffered so much from terrorism that it can not disagree with this action." A 2013 Al Jazeera poll found that 96% of Malians in Bamako supported French intervention. Operation Serval Operation Serval () was a French military operation in Mali. The aim of the operation was to oust Islamic militants from the north of Mali, who had begun a push into the
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