GAO, Mali — Soldiers from Niger and Mali on Tuesday patrolled downtown Gao, combing the sand footpaths through empty market stalls to prevent radical Islamic fighters from returning to the embattled ...

GAO, Mali Soldiers combing abandoned jihadist hideouts and sand-dusted streets for weapons have found industrial-strength explosives, raising the specter Wednesday of bomb attacks by the jihadists who ...

BAMAKO, MaliBAMAKO, Mali — The city of Kidal in the far north of Mali is on high alert after Tuareg rebels said Monday they have taken up strategic positions around the locality, setting the stage for ...

The head of an Islamic police brigade deployed by jihadists controlling a northern Mali city in 2012 was jailed for 10 years Friday, after being convicted of crimes that included cutting off the hands ...

BAMAKO, Mali — Radical Islamists have fled a key Malian town on foot after French airstrikes that began after they seized Diabaly nearly one week ago, the Malian military and fleeing residents said ...

The Islamists who rule northern Mali clashed with government forces for the first time in nearly a year, seizing a strategic city Thursday as the al Qaeda-linked militants pushed toward the government ...

GAO, MaliGAO, Mali — Malian soldiers patrolling a city recently abandoned by Islamic insurgents uncovered a stash of industrial-strength explosives Wednesday. They found grenades at another site and a ...

TIMBUKTU, Mali – When the Islamist militants came to town, Dr. Ibrahim Maiga made a reluctant deal. He would do whatever they asked – treat their wounded, heal their fevers, bandage up without ...

GAO, Mali (AP) - Residents in Mali's newly liberated city of Gao hunted down and beat suspected Islamist extremists who had not fled with their brothers-in-arms as Malian and French military forces ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Separatist Tuareg rebels launched an assault on the northern Mali city of Kidal over the weekend, killing eight soldiers, storming government buildings and taking 30 hostages in a ...

GAO, Mali – A Malian military spokesman says an enormous stash of explosives has been recovered in the city of Gao in northern Mali. Daouda Diarra said Wednesday that French military removed some 800 ...

Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako admits he was naive to think he could shoot his award-winning drama “Timbuktu” in the ancient Mali city so soon after the French military had driven out Islamic ...