At the turn of the 20th century, the Tuareg were the last of the West African peoples to be pacified by the French, and their lands were absorbed into parts of Niger, Mali, Algeria, and Libya.

As Peter Dorrie explained in a 2012 article in World Politics Review, Gaddafi "trained scores of young Tuareg in military camps in Libya, ostensibly to prepare them for rebellion in their home ...

The Tuareg have been around since the 4th century AD, roaming the deserts of Libya, Algeria, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso. While known for their remarkable adaptation to the harsh desert ...

It was initially composed of a mixture of Tuareg returnees from the 2011 rebellion against Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi (such as the group’s military commander Mohamed Ag Najim) and defectors from ...