TIMBUKTU, Mali -- A military helicopter arced through the dusty yellow haze and dropped onto the sand a few kilometers from Timbuktu on April 24, settling inside a ring of Islamists armed with AK-47s ...

TIMBUKTU, Mali (Reuters) – A military helicopter arced through the dusty yellow haze and dropped onto the sand a few kilometers from Timbuktu on April 24, settling inside a ring of Islamists armed ...

TIMBUKTU, Mali - A military helicopter arced through the dusty yellow haze and dropped onto the sand a few kilometers from Timbuktu on April 24, settling inside a ring of Islamists armed with AK47s ...

October 18, 2015: Local officials and the UN are calling for some action on the drug smuggling problem in Mali. Getting absolutely all the Islamic terrorists out of northern Mali has proved difficult ...

Despite its brief mention during the U.S. presidential debates, it's surprising how little attention the situation in Nor then Mali has received. After a coup brought down the Malian regime in March, ...

France has suspended counterterrorism cooperation with Mali and ordered two staff members of the West African nation’s consulate to leave, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs has said.

In the far north three French soldiers were wounded when their vehicle hit a mine. October 9, 2015: In central Mali (Mopti province) three civilians were killed near the Burkina Faso border by gunmen ...

TIMBUKTU, Mali, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A military helicopter arced through the dusty yellow haze and dropped onto the sand a few kilometres from Timbuktu on April 24, settling inside a ring of Islamists ...

In the years that followed, more than 20 other Westerners were kidnapped across the Sahel-Sahara band. Leaked cables from 2008 and 2009 from the U.S. embassy in Mali's capital, Bamako, record sources ...