Al-Qaeda is sieging the capital of Mali, the West African nation nearly twice the size of Texas. The branch of the terrorist organization called JNIM has been choking off fuel and food to Bamako, sending residents scrambling and causing the U.S. embassy to evacuate.
So what does the group want with Mali?
WSJ explains how 24 years after the 9/11 attacks, the Sahel is now the center of global terrorism.
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