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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Reports from Timbuktu, Mali, on Wednesday indicate that most of the ancient manuscripts at a famed library may have been saved by residents before Islamist radicals had the chance to burn them.

In a separate attack on Monday, JNIM claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks on a military airport, a military base and army checkpoints in the northern town of Timbuktu. Mali’s army said ...

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 ...