THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader of the religious persecution and torture of prisoners in Mali in 2012-13 when ...

Fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard in Timbuktu, Mali, Aug. 31, 2012, as they prepare to publicly lash a member of the Islamic Police found guilty of adultery.

As jihadist violence spreads in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, Western influence wanes, and democracy fades into memory ...

Malian soldiers wait at a checkpoint near Sevare on January 27, 2013. French-led troops were advancing on Mali's fabled desert city of Timbuktu on Sunday after capturing a string of other towns in ...

Jihadists waged attacks on military installations in several western Mali towns Tuesday, in a new series of assaults in the junta-led country amid resurging violence in the wider Sahel region. All ...

Africa currently hosts more than 100 World Heritage sites, featuring renowned locations such as the Okavango Delta in ...

The ancient city of Timbuktu in Mali is suffering under a months-long blockade by Islamist militants, as instability grows in a region of the Sahel in West Africa.

Malian army on Tuesday said that it “neutralised” more than 80 militants after Jihadist fighters launched coordinated attacks on military posts in several towns across Mali, marking the third major of ...

Attackers targeted a Malian army base on Monday and fired shells at the airport in the northern city of Timbuktu where heavy gunfire was heard, security and local officials and residents said ...

PARIS (AP) — Mud, money and more security: The U.N.'s cultural agency said Friday that not much more is needed to help rebuild 11 mausoleums that Islamic extremists "totally devastated" in the ...

TIMBUKTU, Mali (Reuters) - Patrolling Timbuktu's maze of mud-brick houses, the French troops quickly lost their way, their jeeps stuck, wheels spinning, in the sand of the ancient Saharan trading ...