The musicians of Mali find themselves in the middle of a civil war.

While fleeing their Mali stronghold, al-Qaida left behind documents describing not how to terrorize a population, but how to govern.

A war travelogue through Mali alongside French troops as a “place just like Afghanistan” descends into chaos.

A history of how Tuareg separatists, jihadists seeking a “desert caliphate,” cigarette smugglers, and narcotraffickers have turned Northern Mali into “the globe’s most significant terrorist threat.”