Alyssa Banta Islamic moderates continue to dominate religious thinking in Timbuktu (the city's mosque, dating from ... through a filthy window. The air inside is stale, redolent of mildew and ...

Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1988 under criteria (ii), (iv) and (v) due to its outstanding universal value as an African intellectual and spiritual capital in the 15th and 16th ...

As its wealth grew, the city erected grand mosques ... of the Timbuktu libraries. The re­maining collections were scattered among the families who owned them. Some were sealed inside the mud ...

(CNN)-- Twenty-six people, at least half of them children, were killed in a stampede near a mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, according to a journalist who witnessed the incident. Moulaye Sayah ...

The situation was particularly severe in the north, where two of Mali’s four World Heritage sites, Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia ... Fourteen of these, as well as the sacred gate of the Sidi Yahia ...

A suspected Islamist charged with the war crime of destroying religious monuments in Timbuktu in Mali has arrived ... destruction of nine mausoleums and a mosque in the historic African city ...