The International Criminal Court (ICC) has convicted the former head of the Islamic police in Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu for crimes against humanity and forcing hundreds of women into sexual slavery. Prosecutors say Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud led a “reign of terror” in Timbuktu after it was overrun in […]
AMMAN (Reuters) – A leading Iraqi jihadist leader in Syria’s rebel-held northwest who founded a former al Qaeda affiliate was killed on Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in his guest house, jihadist sources said. The three sources said Abu Maria al Qahtani, whose real name is Maysr al Jabouri, died after arriving […]
In the shadow of Timbuktu’s ivory-coloured Monument To Peace, musicians from across Mali took the stage as the sun set on the sand-coloured houses of the historic city on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Local community leaders and representatives of the military government opened the city’s traditional festival with the usual pomp and ceremony. […]