Ansar al-Din maintained a powerful position in collaboration with AQIM during the rapid push to take control of northern Mali. The group largely governed Kidal and was very present in Timbuktu ...

Mali's junta leader Col Assimi Goita says the mission "is not complete". Mali's army has seized Kidal, a key town in the country's north that the ethnic Tuareg rebels have held for nearly a decade.

At least one person has been killed in Mali's northern town of Kidal, following ethnic clashes between Tuaregs and black civilians, ahead of elections next week. Tuareg rebels held the town until ...