In 2012, jihadists took over Timbuktu — today a small, sunbaked city in northern Mali, but once the most prominent of numerous centers of Islamic learning in pre-colonial West Africa — and ...

Twin attacks on Malian army bases in Timbuktu and central Mali have left at least 60 soldiers dead, with several missing or ...

Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, amassed immense wealth through gold and strategic trade, becoming ...

An army camp in the centre of Timbuktu came under attack Monday as suspected jihadist militants launched an assault involving ...

BAMAKO (Reuters) -An Al Qaeda-linked rebel 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.

Tuareg associations in Mali and Burkina Faso have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court against their ...

Analysis - Mali, a landlocked Sahelian nation of 25 million people, has faced significant instability since 2012, marked by ...

The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) have announced that they successfully repelled an attempted infiltration targeting their military base in the northern city of Timbuktu.According to the General Staff of ...

The International Criminal Court has been asked to review a confidential legal report arguing that the Russia-linked Wagner ...

These are the forgotten voices of one of Africa’s largest and most often overlooked crises. ... Salamata, 9, steps up to the chalkboard at Mahamane Fondogoumo School in Timbuktu, Mali.

A collaborative investigation by international media outlets has uncovered secret prisons run by Russian Wagner mercenaries ...

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.