The West African country’s armed forces said the assault, on a school for military police, was carried out by terrorists.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has convicted an al-Qaeda-linked leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity in ...

But for much of the past decade the U.S. State Department and the foreign services of other Western governments have advised their citizens to avoid Timbuktu as well as the rest of northern Mali.

A former police chief in the Malian city of Timbuktu was found guilty of torture, outrages upon personal dignity and cruel ...

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi admitted to leading rebel forces who destroyed historic mausoleums at the world heritage site in Mali in 2012. Timbuktu was a major centre of Islamic learning between the ...

was convicted by the court in 2016 and sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment for attacking nine mausoleums and a mosque door ...

The gold which world’s richest man ever took to this pilgrimage was of around 18 tonnes, worth over USD 957 million in 2022 ...

Gunmen have attacked a United Nations peacekeeping base in the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali, killing seven people. Five of those who died were Malian security guards. The Malian military said ...

Once home to pre-colonial empires, Mali is a large, arid, landlocked country in western Africa. For centuries, its northern city of Timbuktu was a center for commerce, culture and learning. But after ...

Battuta travelled throughout the known Islamic world. In the 1350s, he travelled through Mali to Timbuktu where he heard stories of Mansa Musa, which he wrote down. Similarly, another scholar ...

Their alliance with jihadi groups was short-lived: The jihadis ousted the MNLA from major towns and cities, including Timbuktu and Gao, then shifted focus to government-controlled central Mali. The ...