(Corrects spelling of Imam's name in third paragraph) BAMAKO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Fifteen people were crushed to death in a stampede at a mosque in Mali's desert city of Timbuktu, local police said on ...

(Recasts with new figures, details) By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Twenty-six people were crushed to death in a stampede near a mosque in Mali's desert city of Timbuktu, a government ...

In the streets of Mali's Timbuktu, hundreds take part in the annual meticulous and traditional restoration of the Great Djingareyber Mosque. The ancestral technique involves using use plaster and clay ...

TIMBUKTU, Mali -- Timbuktu, the centuries-old Malian center of Islamic learning on the southern edge of the Sahara desert, is rebuilding after Islamist militants razed some of its most revered shrines ...

(Cell phone service arrived in Timbuktu recently, a graphic example of the weird advance of global technology, considering that the city has yet to otherwise acquire even the most basic infrastructure ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Muslim extremists continued destroying the heritage of the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu on Monday, razing tombs and attacking the gate of a 600-year-old mosque, despite ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Islamic extremists destroyed another two mausoleums in the northern Malian city of Timbuktu on Tuesday, attacking a graveyard attached to the city’s most picturesque mosque, ...

The historic city of Timbuktu, once a byword for a place lost to obscurity and myth, is now in the grip of very real political events. As a military coup unseated Mali’s democratically-elected ...

p On Tuesday, Ahmad Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi will be sentenced on war crimes charges for his role in the destruction of nine of Timbuktu's holy shrines as well as the door of a revered mosque in 2012. "The ...

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 ...