The International Criminal Court (ICC) has convicted the former head of the Islamic police in Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu for war crimes and...

  The International Criminal Court (ICC) has convicted the former leader of the Islamic police in Timbuktu, Mali, of war crimes and crimes against...

The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted an al Qaeda-linked extremist leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mali, notably...

Al Hassan Mahmoud was convicted of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during Islamist militants' one-year rule over Timbuktu in 2012....

The International Criminal Court has convicted an Islamic extremist leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mali, notably for abusing...

The former head of the Islamic police in Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu has been convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes...

Al-Hassan ag Abdoul Aziz ag Mohamed ag Mahmoud led a "reign of terror" in Timbuktu, the ICC finds.

The court said his crimes had involved overseeing public floggings, torture and arbitrary arrests during a jihadist takeover in northern Mali in 2012.

Johan Counter was convicted on charges of rape and murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a 15-year-old girl.

This was quite a week in the annals of freedom of the press. Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblower organization Wikileaks, after being...