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Timbuktu. The name alone conjures mystery, obscurity and curiosity: Is that really a place? Where the heck is it? Timbuktu is in Mali, a West African country bordered by seven others, including ...

In the West African nation of Mali, residents of Timbuktu were cheering in the streets Monday, after the city was liberated by French and Malian forces after months under the harsh rule of Islamist ...

Once again the world is watching with increasing alarm as religious extremists destroy centuries-old historical sites because they find them offensive. In 2001 it was the towering statues of Buddha in ...

Violent jihadism as a governing ideology has been a significant feature of the global scene for nearly two decades. There are certainly differences between say, the nature Al Shabaab's control over ...

SEVARE, MaliMalian soldiers entered the city of Timbuktu on Monday after al Qaeda-linked militants fled into the desert having set ablaze a library that held thousands of ancient manuscripts ablaze.

Culture The Rebel Librarians Who Saved Timbuktu EXCERPT In an excerpt from The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, Joshua Hammer describes one collector’s quest to preserve the rare manuscripts hidden ...

The very name evokes mystery, riches, faraway places and unknown lands. Timbuktu — the forbidden city in the heart of Africa. It was founded in 1080. And within 300 years, it had already become one of ...

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“The militants broke the doors and wooden gates to the grave and then used the cloth inside to set fire to the tomb,” said Sankoum Sissoko, a resident in Timbuktu. “They started chasing people away, ...

At the entrance to this fabled city, Malian soldiers clutching Kalashnikov rifles didn’t dare approach the truck. Instead, they shouted from a distance of 15 feet for the passengers to step out, lift ...

The intriguingly unorthodox “Timbuktu,” one of five films vying for a foreign-language Oscar, is a provocative, sometimes satiric drama about the sort of Islamic extremists who make life, especially ...