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Mali army says it killed 16 people at a checkpoint

Mali's army reported that the victims were Islamist fighters, though other sources are reporting they were civilians.

Suicide bombing kills Mali soldier in Timbuktu

A suicide car bombing killed a Mali soldier and wounded six others in an overnight raid on the Timbuktu airport.

Mali: Suicide bomber attacks Timbuktu

A suicide bomber has blown himself up in the northern Mali city of Timbuktu.

A still from a video shows Islamist militants sitting on the ground with their weapons after destroying an ancient shrine in Timbuktu on July 1, 2012. Islamist rebels in northern Mali smashed four more tombs of ancient Muslim saints in Timbuktu on July 1.

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