The central government in Bamako, which had been democratically elected, was overthrown in a military coup on March 22nd in the vain hope of preventing a northern takeover.
Islamic extremists with links to al Qaeda carved out a large portion of northern Mali last year, taking advantage of a chaotic situation after a military coup in March 2012.
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The day ended with a rendition of military musical march The Beating of Retreat.
But the mainly secular coalition of human rights group fell out, especially after a march on the military headquarters turned violent.
Mali plunged into chaos in March after a military ruler overthrew the president, shaking one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
At a press conference in March 1962, while fielding a question about military reservists who were upset at being mobilized and deployed to Europe and Southeast Asia, Kennedy made the point that there is no level playing field -- not ever.
Chaos has rocked the country since March, when a military ruler overthrew the democratically elected president, shaking what had been one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
The Islamist fighters have controlled the vast desert stretches of northern Mali, with the weak government clinging to the south, since a military coup in the capital in March last year unleashed chaos.
Burma installed a nominally civilian government in March 2011, ending almost half a century of military rule.
He seized power in March of 1982 through a military coup, and held it for 18 months until he was overthrown.
Ecuador broke diplomatic relations with Colombia in March 2008 after a Colombian military attack against a FARC camp inside Ecuador.
In March, he published a classified military report, created by the Army Counterintelligence Center in 2008, that argued that the site was a potential threat to the Army and briefly speculated on ways to deter government employees from leaking documents to it.
Chaos have rocked Mali since a military ruler overthrew the democratically-elected president in March.
Chaos have rocked Mali since a military ruler overthrew the democratically-elected president in March, shaking one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
Mali's crisis accelerated in March, when junior military officers staged a coup, ending 20 years of democracy.
Mr McKinnon has never denied that he accessed the computer networks of a wide number of US military institutions between February 2001 and March 2002.
Mali descended into chaos last March after Tuareg rebels took advantage of a military coup to expand their control over the vast north of the country.
In the district of Baba Amr, which bore the brunt of much of the military onslaught in February and March 2011, a shiny new banner of President Bashar al-Assad is plastered on a building pockmarked by shrapnel and bullet holes.
In Bamako, a group of young artists got together after the military coup in March and formed the movement, Sofas de la Republique (Warriors of the Republic), in a tribute to the great warriors of the Mandingo Empire.
In March 2012, its special forces backed a failed Nigerian military raid to free Christopher McManus, who had been abducted months earlier with Italian Franco Lamolinara from a home in Kebbi state.
"Gaddafi made a television statement late on 19 March 2011 in which he criticised military action and asked the security council and international community for an immediate stop to hostilities, " said Lord Strathclyde.
Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, a Shia, has repeatedly stressed that the military campaign he launched in March, backed by American and British forces, was not directed against any one faction, certainly not just the Mahdi militia.
The U.S. is not providing direct aid to the Malian military because the democratically elected government was overthrown last March in a coup.
Ecuador broke diplomatic relations with Colombia in March 2008 and amassed troops along the border after a Colombian military attack against a FARC camp inside Ecuador.
Two years later, in March 2009, as a part of his now-aborted military-commission trial, KSM co-authored the "Islamic Response to the Government's Nine Accusations" with the other four Sept. 11 co-defendants: Ramzi bin Al Shibh, Walid Bin Attash, Mustafa Ahmed Al-Hawsawi and Ali Abd Al-Aziz Ali.
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The north African nation has faced on-again, off-again arial attacks against strategic military positions since the UN Security Council issued a no fly zone resolution on March 17.
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On March 26, the U.S. and South Korea signed a military contingency plan to respond to possible attacks from North Korea and the U.S. has said it would install additional missile inceptors on the West Coast in response to the threat from North Korea.
In March 2005 the US's military credibility in the region was at a high point.
While doves are aflutter with the notion that the military-industrial complex is on the march, nobody expects Japan to become a major weapons exporter anytime soon.
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