Timbuktu was founded just over ten years ago with a clear goal: to make even the most remote destinations accessible to adventurous travelers. Timbuktu can take relatively complex and slightly ...

Attackers targeted a Malian army base on Monday and fired shells at the airport in the northern city of Timbuktu where heavy gunfire was heard, security and local officials and residents said.

The ancient city of Timbuktu in Mali is suffering under a months long blockade by Islamist militants as instability grows in the region. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 5, 2023.) ...

Timbuktu, the city of 333 saints has been under jihadist blockade for a month, as residents struggle to live, and eat. Facing dire circumstances, its residents find themselves trapped in the war ...

Founded between the fifth and 12th centuries by Tuareg tribes, Timbuktu is known as the "Pearl of the Desert" and "The City of 333 Saints" for the number of Muslim sages buried there during a golden ...

The 28,000 ancient texts returned to Timbuktu in August after 13 years away.

SEVARE, Mali — Backed by French helicopters and paratroopers, Malian soldiers entered the fabled city of Timbuktu on Monday after al-Qaida militants who ruled by fear for nearly 10 months fled ...

Timbuktu, USA offers a refreshingly absurd portrait of American systems of power. Originally written in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's first inauguration, the play tells the story of Kelly ...

Oscar nominee Abderrahmane Sissako (“Timbuktu”) returns to the screen for the first time in nearly a decade with his latest feature, “Black Tea,” a lushly lensed romantic drama about a love spanning ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - The Oscar nomination of "Timbuktu", a film about the occupation of the Malian desert town by al Qaeda-linked Islamists in 2012, should not mask the lack of established cinema from ...