(Reuters) - The al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters who have used pick-axes, shovels and hammers to shatter earthen tombs and shrines of local saints in Mali's fabled desert city of Timbuktu say they ...

Ignore the open sewers that bisect its streets. Endure the heat. Suffer the aggressive teenagers selling cheap T-shirts. This is Timbuktu. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

The preservationists of Timbuktu’s centuries-old artifacts have been holding their breath for weeks, waiting for the moment when the French military would seize back Mali’s ancient northern capital ...

The Malian military government on Monday started returning home the historic manuscripts of Timbuktu, which were spirited out of their fabled northern city when it was occupied by al-Qaida-linked ...

AGADEZ, Niger (AP) – Booms from rocket launchers and automatic gunfire crackled Sunday around Mali’s fabled town of Timbuktu, known as an ancient seat of Islamic learning, for its 700-year-old mud ...

Is the fabled city of Timbuktu about to be rescued? Two weeks after France began bombing Islamic militant positions in northern Mali, columns of French and African armored vehicles snaking northward ...

Foreign Policy's Peter Chilson gives a short history of the ancient, iconic Malian city and explains why it now faces imminent destruction. Peter Chilson traveled to Mali on a grant from the Pulitzer ...

Timbuktu is a city in Mali. It is situated 20 kilometres north of the River Niger on the southern edge of the Sahara Dese Timbuktu is popularly referred to as the "city of 333 saints" because 333 ...

Late in the afternoon of April 20, 1828, "just as the sun was touching the horizon," as he later described it, a young Frenchman, barely 29, walked into Timbuktu disguised as an Arab, wearing long ...