On September 5, the first of at least three convoys arrived in Niger from Libya, sending journalists scampering to this impoverished, desert state. They reportedly carried members of the Tuareg ...

March 6, 2011: In Libya, the Kadaffi clan is desperately trying to suppress an uprising among most of its six million inhabitants. The Kadaffis have found that the most dependable troops can be ...

he had led an attack by Qaddafi loyalists on a Tuareg town in Libya. An untold number of Tuaregs were killed, Moktar said by telephone Friday. "I was told that he was considering defecting because ...

Indigenous tribes, the Tebu and Tuareg, at loggerheads since 2014, are forging an alliance under the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) to defend southern Libya against military ...

Dressed in military camouflage gear and scarves, Abdallah and his six Libyan Tuareg companions sit under a tree that provides scant protection from the Saharan sun in southern Libya. They have ...

These are people well used to doing battle. And some of this battle has involved Libya. In the 1980s, Libyan Tuareg were involved in an armed liberation movement; in the 1990s Tuareg ...

"Without Gadhafi, we wouldn't have any of this," proclaimed Aha Issufa, a Tuareg businessman, as he drove through Agadez, a sandy outpost in Niger, which borders Libya to the south. He pointed out ...

TRIPOLI/ALGIERS, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Tuareg tribesmen fought skirmishes at the weekend with armed groups affiliated to Libya's interim government, two sources with local contacts told Reuters ...

Now, some are returning home to tell their story Tuareg mercenaries, like the above pictured Niger-based fighters, have been reported fighting for Qaddafi in Libya / Reuters TIMBUKTU, Mali -- Last ...

The military chief of Libya's new interim government attended a meeting on Friday between Tuareg tribesmen and local Arabs in the southwestern town of Ghadames aimed at patching up differences ...

As the anniversary of the February 17 uprising against Moammar Gadhafi approaches, Mali and other African states to the south are paying a price for the revolution by Western-backed insurgents in ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The spokesman for a hardline Tuareg rebel group in Mali says that his group is working with Tuareg fighters recently returned from Libya, and they are organizing for a ...