Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wa-l-Muslimin (JNIM), al-Qaeda’s branch in Mali, released a 14-minute-long video through its official media organ az-Zallaqa in which the organization’s leader Iyad Ag Ghaly boasted about the drawdown of French forces from the Sahel, the withdrawal of American soldiers from Afghanistan, and called for attacks on the “French infidels, other Jews, and the Crusaders.”