BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — An Islamist group behind public executions and amputations in northern Mali is further expanding its reach, taking in a new brigade of members. The new wing of Ansar Dine, known as ...

The jihadist group Ansar Dine (Defenders of the Faith) told AFP it was responsible for Saturday's attack on a United Nations base in Mali that killed two UN peacekeepers and a civilian contractor. The ...

FILE PHOTO: Iyad Ag Ghaly, the alleged leader of Ansar Dine, meets the then Burkina Faso foreign minister, Djibril Bassole, in Kidal, northern Mali in 2012 THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The International ...

July 3 (Reuters) - Fighters from Ansar Dine, an al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in northern Mali, have destroyed historic Sufi shrines in the ancient desert city of Timbuktu, triggering international ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sahel countries launch a joint battalion to fight armed groups as they boost ties with Russia amid rising insecurity.

Mali's Tuareg rebel National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine Islamist militants have agreed to merge and create an independent Islamic state in the north of the country, a ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court unsealed an arrest warrant Friday for a Malian accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the desert city of Timbuktu in ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Malian Islamist militant group Ansar Dine said it carried out a suicide and rocket attack on a U.N. base in Kidal, north Mali on Friday that killed six peacekeepers, the SITE ...

Malian special forces arrested a senior figure from the Ansar Dine jihadist group close to a central military base where he is accused of planning an attack that killed 17 soldiers. "Today, at around ...