Extremists have killed dozens of soldiers in an attack on a military base in Mali. That's according to civil society and ...

The Malian army said it had foiled an attack on a military camp in Timbuktu on Monday morning. Local officials and ...

Timbuktu can take relatively complex and slightly amorphous travel plans and transform them into a well-organized, perfectly ...

An al-Qaeda linked group says it carried out a major attack on the Malian town of Boulikessi and the seizure of an army base ...

Twin attacks on a Malian army base in the northern city of Timbuktu and in the centre of the country left dozens of soldiers ...

The attacks mark one of the deadliest escalations in Mali’s ongoing security crisis, underscoring the growing threat of ...

For centuries, Timbuktu has existed in the Western imagination as a byword for the most exotic, far-flung place conceivable. Situated on the southern edge of the Sahara, it acquired a near ...

Alyssa Banta (www.alyssabanta.com) Preservationists are raising funds to translate collections (one of the largest private holdings in Timbuktu) into English and French. "The manuscripts show that ...

Now, Muslim extremists in Mali are pillaging tombs and other sites sacred to Sufis in Timbuktu the "city of 33 saints" and a city so important to trade in past centuries that it inspired the ...