(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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BAMAKO, Mali — The Malian military government on Monday started returning home the historic manuscripts of Timbuktu, which were spirited out of their fabled northern city when it was occupied by ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Islamists who have taken control of one of Africa's most historic cities, Timbuktu, smashed the wooden door of an old mosque Monday, continuing a campaign of destruction of religious ...

Built in 1327 by Mansa Musa—often considered the wealthiest person ever—the Djinguereber Mosque rises from straw, wood and earth in the heart of Timbuktu.

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, ...

Late in the afternoon of April 20, 1828, "just as the sun was touching the horizon," as he later described it, a young Frenchman, barely 29, walked into Timbuktu disguised as an Arab, wearing long ...

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 ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Muslim extremists continued destroying the heritage of the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu on Monday, razing tombs and attacking the gate of a 600-year-old mosque, despite ...