FRANCE 24 journalist wins UN Correspondents award for 'Timbuktu Revisited'... READ MORE›
Ansar al-Islam is well-organized and regarded as more aligned with al Qaeda than ISIS... READ MORE›
Since at least 2016, Islamic State militants have targeted Sufis, who practice a mystical form of Islam that includes the veneration of saints, often at their tombs... READ MORE›
In an interview with an Islamic State magazine in January, one of the organization's top commanders in Sinai outlined his hatred for Sufism... READ MORE›
In August United Nations workers were killed in an assault on a hotel in central Mali... READ MORE›
Stephen McGown opens up about six years as al-Qaeda hostage and how he converted to Islam... READ MORE›
Haidara stayed in jihadist-occupied Timbuktu for a month, covertly organising the hiding of his manuscripts in family houses... READ MORE›
On Friday night Paris was rocked by multiple terror attacks which left 129 people dead and more than 300 injured... READ MORE›
UN peacekeepers will protect world heritage sites from attacks by Islamist militants Unesco has said... READ MORE›
Judge Pangalangan noted five mitigating factors Mr. Mahdi had admitted his guilt, cooperated with prosecutors, shown remorse and initially advised against the demolition... READ MORE›
Despite continued French troop deployments, a UN peacekeeping mission and years of peace talks, Mali remains beset by unrest and ethnic strife... READ MORE›
Gunmen have attacked a United Nations peacekeeping base in the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali, killing seven people... READ MORE›
NDJAMENA, Chad -- Deep in the Sahara, late at night, a Reaper drone silently tracked a six-vehicle convoy crossing the desert into Niger from Libya... READ MORE›
One candidate is kidnapped and ballot boxes torched in elections two years overdue and denounced by the opposition... READ MORE›
Google In its defense, Google has made some changes to certain types of knowledge panels that suggest it's aware of the whole sourcing thing... READ MORE›
Boko Haram has spilled into Chad but is a fundamentally a Nigerian-based group... READ MORE›
Eleven soldiers have been killed and five wounded in an attack on a military base in Mali as rival armed groups surrounded the city of Timbuktu... READ MORE›
Stephen McGown, who was longest held of the Timbuktu Three, reveals he converted to Islam during his six years in captivity... READ MORE›
Local and international project in city of 33 saints reconstructs 14 Sufi mausoleums smashed up by al-Qaida backed extremists... READ MORE›
Those attacks have been attributed to the Islamic State, a rival terrorist organization to Al Qaeda... READ MORE›
Ms. Nkoana-Mashabane, the foreign minister, declined on Thursday to discuss the condition of Mr. McGown, now back in South Africa... READ MORE›
He became a leading figure in Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, when it was formed out of the Algerian group... READ MORE›
Islamist militants are also accused of being behind attacks on ten religious and historic monuments in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Timbuktu in Mali... READ MORE›
If enough evidence is established, Mahdi will stand trial for his alleged involvement in the attack on the centuries-old world heritage site of Timbuktu... READ MORE›
Stephen McGown watched the swallows migrate back and forth across the Sahara six times before he was finally rescued from the grip of Islamist extremists... READ MORE›
Stephen McGown was kidnapped from a Timbuktu hostel in 2011 but South African government says he is back home... READ MORE›
Mahdi, 40, a former civil servant from the Timbuktu area, directed the destruction of shrines to some of the 333 saints that the city is known for... READ MORE›
Critics in Mali have described Mr. Mahdi as no more than a midlevel operative and have said that others in Timbuktu had greater power and responsibility... READ MORE›
But this created the vital opening for AQIM, which proceeded to thrust aside the Tuaregs and turn itself into the new master of northern Mali... READ MORE›
BAMAKO - Suspected Islamist militants killed 11 soldiers in an attack on a Malian army base near the desert city of Timbuktu on Monday, the government said... READ MORE›
A photo of Stephen McGown's mother, Beverley McGown, is shown in the program for her funeral after she died in May... READ MORE›
The Train Suite Shiki-Shima will launch on 1 May and travel from Tokyo through the north-eastern region of Tohoku and onto Hokkaido with space for 34 passengers... READ MORE›
Mali's expansive north has been unstable since 2012, when separatist rebels and jihadists seized the area... READ MORE›
UNESCO said that the 40th meeting of its World Heritage Committee in Istanbul decided to place the site on its list of world heritage in danger... READ MORE›
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