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

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

An Al Qaeda-linked jihadist group active in West Africa's Sahel region has claimed an attack on a military base in Mali on Sunday that two sources said had killed more than 30 soldiers.

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

A raid in the center of Mali has left at least 30 soldiers dead. The army announced Monday night that it had 'neutralized' 14 ...

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 ...

For hundreds of years, Timbuktu has had a place in the world's imagination. Located on the southern edge of the Sahara desert, the city flourished as a center of Islamic culture and scholarship in ...

Timbuktu! No city in the world conjures greater images of romance and adventure. Timbuktu, that lost city of gold — the end of the earth, terra incognita — where the maps went blank.