Islamist fighters in Timbuktu have destroyed two tombs at the northern Malian city's famous Djingareyber mosque, residents have said. Eyewitnesses said the militants shot in the air to warn people ...

The most significant of three mosques in Timbuktu, it seems to rise out of the baked ground. Rows of pillars, reinforced with stone, support a timber-lattice roof, but the largest part of the ...

A stampede at a famed mosque in Mali's north-western desert city of Timbuktu crushed at least 26 people to death and left many more injured, officials and witnesses said. A hospital source said 16 ...

The restoration of Timbuktu's 15th-century Sidi Yahya mosque, destroyed by jihadists in 2012, sends a signal that Mali won't allow its equilibrium to change permanently, a Mali researcher told DW.

Mali's Islamist rebels have smashed the entrance of a 15th century Timbuktu mosque, escalating a campaign of destruction of the city's cultural treasures despite threats of prosecution for war crimes.

But another of its famous mosques was destroyed, as were shrines that had stood since Timbuktu's golden era during the Mali empire, when the city was a thriving commercial hub and a center of ...

BAMAKO – Al Qaeda-linked Islamists in Timbuktu broke down the door of a 15th century mosque yesterday that locals believed had… BAMAKO – Al Qaeda-linked Islamists in Timbuktu broke down the ...

The centuries-old Djingareyber mosque is made mainly of mud and wood Islamist fighters in Timbuktu have destroyed two tombs at the northern Malian city's famous Djingareyber mosque, residents have ...

Islamist fighters in Timbuktu have destroyed two tombs at the northern Malian city's famous Djingareyber mosque, residents have said. Eyewitnesses said the militants shot in the air to warn people ...

Dakar - The Islamists controlling northern Mali on Tuesday destroyed two tombs at the ancient Djingareyber mud mosque in Timbuktu, an endangered world heritage site, witnesses told AFP. "Currently the ...