Timbuktu Mayor Ousmane Halle also said the Islamic radicals moved to the high school, near the army camp in the city. "Traffic is prohibited in the city, I stayed home," said Halle.

Legendary seat of learning in 15th and 16th centuries, Timbuktu saw the mausoleums of its great thinkers destroyed by Islamic extremists. These have now been restored by the UN.

AGADEZ, Niger - Booms from rocket launchers and automatic gunfire crackled around Mali's fabled town of Timbuktu, known as an ancient seat of Islamic learning, for its 700-year-old mud mosque and ...

In this photo taken Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2004, Alhousseini Ould Alfadrou, 16, sings verses from crumbling ancient Islamic manuscripts in a mud-walled house in Timbuktu, Mali.

Timbuktu owes its international fame to its role as a centre of Islamic learning, based in its three large mosques, in the 15th and 16th Centuries.

Turkey is to support the rebuilding of an Islamic heritage site in Timbuktu which was destroyed by armed groups in 2012, the United Nation’s cultural agency’s (UNESCO) representative in Mali ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Mali's Islamist rebels smashed the entrance of a 15th century Timbuktu mosque on Monday, escalating a campaign of destruction of the ...

As heritage experts lament the damage done to historical monuments in Timbuktu, another treasure no less important is in great danger: the manuscripts of the Kati Collection ...