Russia and Turkey’s Shadow Looms Over The Sahel Region

The recent alliances between Algeria and Russia worry Morocco about its potential loss of influence in the region France announced the withdrawal of its troops in the Sahel to coincide with the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and Iraq. In doing so, French President Macron brought to an end almost a decade of counter-terrorism missions in which the objectives have not been fully achieved. The news came just weeks after a second coup attempt in Mali. It is in this country that France deployed Operation Serval, an exercise approved in 2013 that sought to eradicate the terrorist threat and…