FILE - Ethnic Tuareg and Arab militias from Mali meet on Aug. 28, 2014 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to talk about a homeland in northern Mali (called Azawad) they lay claim on, ahead of peace ...

Some northern Tuareg and Arab leaders argued that they came from noble Cherifian lineages that went right back to the Prophet Mohammed and, as such, found the idea of being subservient to less ...

Ubari and Ghat, Libya – Fierce fighting between indigenous Tuareg and Tebu tribes in the isolated Saharan town of Ubari, near Libya’s lucrative southern oil fields and vast frontier with ...

Fighting has broken out in northern Mali between Tuareg separatists and local Arab-led gunmen, only days after the African country won a $4.2 billion aid pledge to help it recover from a conflict ...

GHADAMES, Libya - Tuareg tribesmen and local Arabs who have fought skirmishes near this Saharan oasis exchanged hostages and signed an agreement on Friday to try to stabilize an area where some ...

Mali's Arab and Tuareg communities say they're facing new threats amid the French-led mission to oust extremist Islamists from the country's north.

But after Gadhafi was killed in 2011 during the early days of the Arab Spring, nearly 30,000 Tuareg made the journey south from Libya back to Mali.

Tuareg and Arab rebels are resuming peace talks with the Malian government, notably about the northern territories where they are fighting for autonomy, 11 days after they walked out of the ...