Yet Timbuktu's isolation has become a bit less ... thumb through it and stare in amazement at an illustration of the Great Mosque of Medina. It's the only drawing, besides geometrical patterns ...

At this point I fell into the excuses that I regularly used with the men and boys hawking silver jewelry near the mosque ... event spurred the great dispersal of the Timbuktu libraries.

(CNN)-- Twenty-six people, at least half of them children, were killed in a stampede near a mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, according to a journalist who witnessed the incident. Moulaye Sayah ...

The situation was particularly severe in the north, where two of Mali’s four World Heritage sites, Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia ... Fourteen of these, as well as the sacred gate of the Sidi Yahia ...