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 (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 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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The ...

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 ...

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 ...