Extremists have killed dozens of soldiers in an attack on a military base in Mali. That's according to civil society and ...

Timbuktu can take relatively complex and slightly amorphous travel plans and transform them into a well-organized, perfectly ...

The Malian army said it had foiled an attack on a military camp in Timbuktu on Monday morning. Local officials and ...

Twin attacks on a Malian army base in the northern city of Timbuktu and in the centre of the country left dozens of soldiers ...

An Al Qaeda-linked jihadist group active in West Africa's Sahel region has claimed an attack on a military base in Mali on Sunday that two sources said had killed more than 30 soldiers.

Alyssa Banta (www.alyssabanta.com) Preservationists are raising funds to translate collections (one of the largest private holdings in Timbuktu) into English and French. "The manuscripts show that ...

For centuries, Timbuktu has existed in the Western imagination as a byword for the most exotic, far-flung place conceivable. Situated on the southern edge of the Sahara, it acquired a near ...

For hundreds of years, Timbuktu has had a place in the world's imagination. Located on the southern edge of the Sahara desert, the city flourished as a center of Islamic culture and scholarship in ...

Now, Muslim extremists in Mali are pillaging tombs and other sites sacred to Sufis in Timbuktu the "city of 33 saints" and a city so important to trade in past centuries that it inspired the ...

The duo started Postcards From Timbuktu in 2016 with a mission to help unemployed tour guides gain an income by sending cards from a city that’s become shorthand for a far-flung, if not ...

The attacks mark one of the deadliest escalations in Mali’s ongoing security crisis, underscoring the growing threat of ...