Alyssa Banta (www.alyssabanta.com) Preservationists are raising funds to translate collections (one of the largest private holdings in Timbuktu ... cut young U.S. Special Forces troops, dispatched ...

In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu, many nights before I encountered ... They had met in December 2006, when the U.S. had sent a Special Forces team to train Malian soldiers to fight AQIM.

Ansar al-Din maintained a powerful position in collaboration with AQIM during the rapid push to take control of northern Mali. The group largely governed Kidal and was very present in Timbuktu ...

(CNN)-- Twenty-six people, at least half of them children, were killed in a stampede near a mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, according to a journalist who witnessed the incident. Moulaye Sayah ...

FILE - United Nations forces patrol the streets of Timbuktu, Mali, on Sept. 26, 2021. At least 49 civilians and 15 soldiers were killed when Islamist militants attacked a military camp and a ...

The reconstruction of the Timbuktu mausoleums was one of first cases where destruction ... The project was funded by the Government of Mali and UNESCO with contributions from the European Union, ...