An army air strike at a market in Mali's northern Timbuktu region on Sunday killed at least 18 people and injured seven, a local rights group said, while the army said it was targeting terrorists.

An army air strike in Mali's Timbuktu region killed at least 18 people, causing controversy over targeting civilians or terrorists. Malian forces claim the strike aimed at neutralizing terrorists amid ...

"Everyone in Timbuktu heard the shots," he said quietly ... the first documentary evidence of democracy being practiced in Africa, a letter from an emissary to the sheikh of Masina.

The West African nation, along with neighbors Burkina Faso and Niger, has for more than a decade battled an insurgency fought by armed groups, including some allied with al-Qaida and the Islamic State ...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), under the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai, says it has “executed another devastating airstrike” on a major Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) hideout in ...

Trying to bring peace to one of the earth's most inhospitable and lawless places ...

The Nigerian military has repeatedly emphasized that disrupting ISWAP’s supply network is key to weakening the group’s operational ...

Many African kingdoms, including Benin and Kongo ... expanding into the important trading cities of Timbuktu and Gao. Mali became famous for its trade in gold and the empire became incredibly ...

Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1988 for its Outstanding Universal Value as an African intellectual and spiritual capital in the 15th and 16th centuries. Among its treasures were ...