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 ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced the former head of the Islamic police in Mali's historic city of Timbuktu to 10 years in prison for war crimes. Prosecutors said al-Hassan ag ...

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.

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 ...

Ansar al-Din maintained a powerful position in collaboration with AQIM during the rapid push to take control of northern Mali. The group largely governed Kidal and was very present in Timbuktu ...

Mansa Musa was the ruler of the kingdom of Mali from 1312 C.E. to 1337 C.E. He was one of the richest individuals in the ...

The Malian army announced on Tuesday it had neutralized several terrorists and destroyed some of their logistical equipment in the Timbuktu region on Monday ...

“This regime and these acts had a traumatic impact on the population of Timbuktu,” presiding judge ... to al-Qaida that held power in northern Mali at the time, and served as the ancient ...

"Timbuktu" is hardly the only movie that's portrayed ... unresolved questions of ethnicity and resources that kept northern Mali in a state of crisis that the jihadists later exploited.

Two terrorist trucks carrying logistical equipment were also destroyed in the northern Timbuktu region the same ... independence for part of northern Mali. The High Council for Azawad Unity ...