Bamako: Militants in northern Mali have drawn both domestic and international condemnation after they destroyed seven historic tombs and the door to an ancient mosque...
Bamako: Militants from the al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine group on Sunday continued with their effort to destroy mausoleums of Sufi saints with guns and pick-axes...
Bamako: Â Islamist fighters with ties to al-Qaida declared on Friday that they now control the northern half of Mali after driving out Tuareg separatist group....
Bamako: Al Qaeda-linked Islamists declared on Thursday they had secured full control of Mali’s desert north, a day after pushing their former Tuareg separatist allies...
Bamako: Mali’s Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine, which jointly controls the country’s north, said that it was not interested in proclaiming an independent state but...
Bamako: An Al-Qaeda offshoot in Mali which is holding seven Algerian hostages said that negotiations to free them were “advancing” and they had received medication...