He was a member of the feared Ansar Dine Islamic militant group that seized control of Timbuktu for almost a year from early 2012. The judge said there were also brutal floggings in the central ...

He was a member of the feared Ansar Dine Islamic militant group that seized control of Timbuktu for almost a year from early 2012. During that time, women were arrested then raped in detention ...

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 from early 2012. He was convicted by the ...

The International Criminal Court will Wednesday sentence a jihadist police chief for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during a reign of terror in the ...

The 48-year-old was a member of Ansar Dine, an Islamic extremist group linked to al-Qaida that held power in northern Mali at the time, and served as the ancient city’s police chief. A French ...

ICC sentences Timbuktu war criminal to 10 years ICC judges had convicted Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, 47, in June for crimes including torture when he was a member of the feared ...

Prost ruled that Al Hassan contributed to the Ansar Dine regime, whose actions had a "traumatic effect on the population of Timbuktu". The people "lived in an atmosphere of fear, violence ...