GAO, Mali Soldiers combing abandoned jihadist hideouts and sand-dusted streets for weapons have found industrial-strength explosives, raising the specter Wednesday of bomb attacks by the jihadists who ...

GAO, Mali — Soldiers from Niger and Mali on Tuesday patrolled downtown Gao, combing the sand footpaths through empty market stalls to prevent radical Islamic fighters from returning to the embattled ...

Kola Bah used to earn a living as a tour guide in Mali's historic city of Djenné, once a center of Islamic learning known for the sprawling mud-brick mosque that has been on the UNESCO World Heritage ...

GAO, MaliGAO, Mali — Malian soldiers patrolling a city recently abandoned by Islamic insurgents uncovered a stash of industrial-strength explosives Wednesday. They found grenades at another site and a ...

TIMBUKTU, Mali – When the Islamist militants came to town, Dr. Ibrahim Maiga made a reluctant deal. He would do whatever they asked – treat their wounded, heal their fevers, bandage up without ...

French special forces took control of the airport at the Islamic rebel stronghold of Gao, the French government said Saturday, meeting "serious resistance" from militants even as they pressed ...

French forces took control of the Islamic rebel stronghold of Gao, the French government said Saturday, winning the biggest prize yet in the battle to retake the northern half of Mali. Gao, which lies ...

GAO, Mali – Soldiers combing abandoned jihadist hideouts and sand-dusted streets for weapons have found industrial-strength explosives, raising the spectre Wednesday of bomb attacks by the jihadists ...

Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako admits he was naive to think he could shoot his award-winning drama “Timbuktu” in the ancient Mali city so soon after the French military had driven out Islamic ...

A gunbattle broke out in northern Mali's largest city Sunday following two straight days of suicide bombings, as Islamist militants continued to defy a lock-down on territory reclaimed by French-led ...

Elderly men were keeping watch Saturday over Timbuktu’s main library after Islamists burned a tomb listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The ancient city in Mali was captured by at least two ...