SAN, Mali (AP) — One wing of Mali’s Ansar Dine rebel group has split off to create its own movement, saying that they want to negotiate a solution to the crisis in Mali in a declaration that indicates ...

BAMAKO, Mali — The two rebel groups that seized control of the northern half of Mali announced Saturday that they have agreed to fuse their movements and work together to create an independent Islamic ...

, also transliterated Ançar Dine, Ançar Deen or Ansar ad-Din; meaning "Defenders of Faith") is an Islamist group led by Iyad Ag Ghaly. Ag Ghaly, one of the most prominent figures of a Tuareg rebellion ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A spokesman for an al-Qaida-linked group in northern Mali wants to surrender and be extradited to face trial in his home country of Mauritania, according to a news agency there.

MINUSMA has the highest rate of casualties among active U.N. missions and many of the dead are Africans who occupy some of the most dangerous front-line positions in the north. Ansar Dine, led by ...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court (ICC) published an arrest warrant on Friday against Iyad Ag Ghaly, the alleged leader of the Ansar Dine Islamist group which took over Timbuktu in ...

TIMBUKTU (Reuters) - The Malian Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine said on Tuesday it would allow an aid convoy it had blocked outside the northern city of Timbuktu to deliver its food and medical ...

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Senior members of Tuareg-led Malian rebel group MNLA have ditched a week-old pact with al Qaeda-linked Islamists to turn the desert north of the West African country into an Islamic state, saying it ...

The French intervention in Mali is a good thing for at least five reasons. It says no to obscurantism and terrorism in the region. The response of the Malian Taliban and what that response tells us ...

BAMAKO/NOUAKCHOTT, June 1 (Reuters) - Top members of Tuareg-led Malian rebel group MNLA ditched on Friday a week-old pact with al Qaeda-linked Islamists to turn the country's north into an Islamic ...