With streets apparently paved with gold, fabulous riches and dazzling wealth, in a golden age of exploration there were few cities on earth to match the intriguing lure of Timbuktu. Distant and se ...

With streets apparently paved with gold, fabulous riches and dazzling wealth, in a golden age of exploration there were few cities on earth to ...

In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu, many nights before I encountered the bibliophile or the marabout, or comforted the Green Beret's girlfriend, I was summoned to a rooftop to meet the salt ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two people have been killed and five others injured after shells were fired on the historic northern Malian city of Timbuktu, the army says. The military blamed what it called "terrorists" for the ...

READ: ICC prosecutor asks for judicial authority to probe case filed vs Duterte He was a member of the feared Ansar Dine Islamic militant group that seized control of Timbuktu for almost a year ...