TIMBUKTU, Mali – On the morning French commandos parachuted onto the sand just north of this storied city and ended 10 months of Islamic rule, Hawi Traore folded up her veil. On the next day, she wore ...

Ignore the open sewers that bisect its streets. Endure the heat. Suffer the aggressive teenagers selling cheap T-shirts. This is Timbuktu. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

The preservationists of Timbuktu’s centuries-old artifacts have been holding their breath for weeks, waiting for the moment when the French military would seize back Mali’s ancient northern capital ...

They stand with guns atop the clay-brick walls of a desert town under siege -- buildings that are centuries old and dotted with satellite dishes. The Islamic jihadists who have taken control of the ...

Timbuktu conjures up images of long camel caravans out on the edge of the sand-strewn Sahara — a remoteness so legendary that the ancient city is still a byword for the end of the earth. The city ...

(Reuters) - When turban-swathed Tuareg rebels swept into Timbuktu on Sunday to plant the flag of their northern Mali homeland, they found very few tourists in the bars, hotels, museums, mosques and ...