For nearly two months, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) has been trying to completely cut off the historic northern city of Timbuktu ... Mali and across Africa's Sahel region, as ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced the former head of the Islamic police in Mali's historic city of ...

The International Criminal Court will Wednesday sentence a jihadist police chief for war crimes and crimes against humanity ...

Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud was a member of the feared Ansar Dine Islamic militant group that seized control of Timbuktu for almost a year ... Wearing all-white traditional west ...

Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys beneath the veil along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu.

THE HAGUE, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A Malian Islamist who helped run the police force imposing sharia law on Timbuktu after the ... white with a traditional West African robe and headdress.

Among them was Timbuktu, a legendary center of trade and Islamic scholarship. The jihadist occupation of Timbuktu was brutal but thankfully brief: In early 2013, a French-led coalition liberated ...