Overview

Iyad Ag Ghali (Iyad Ag Ghaly) is the leader of Ansar al-Dine (AAD), an organization operating in Mali which cooperates closely with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. Ghali created AAD in late 2011 because his effort to take over a secular Tuareg organization failed due to his extremist views.(Read more...)