(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 ...

On Sunday, hundreds of Timbuktu residents headed to the Djingarey Ber Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in danger, to plaster the mosque and celebrate the 700th anniversary of this impressive ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

It was a singular, defining act of barbarism, beamed out live for the world to see. In March 2001, Taliban fighters and grandees clustered around the famed giant statues of the Buddha in Afghanistan’s ...

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 court said early on Saturday that the man was handed over by Niger overnight and was now in its seaside detention centre in The Hague, seat of the tribunal. An Islamist rebel suspected of ...

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 ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre honors the memory of the Grand Imam of the Djingareyber Mosque in Timbuktu, Abderahamane Ben Essayouti, an eminent spiritual leader who dedicated his life to the ...