The group quickly emerged around a core of Ifoghas Tuareg and longtime companions of Ag Ghali, eventually picking up support from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). It quickly emerged as an ...

Islam arrived in North Africa (the Maghreb) just seven years after the death of the Prophet Mohammed in 639. The 4,000 strong Arab invading forces came from Mecca under the leadership of the ...

The League of Scholars of the Maghreb expressed strong opposition ... calling the reforms inconsistent with Islamic law and the guidance of King Mohammed VI. The league said that these amendments ...

An Islamic center for teaching the Quran, religious sciences, and the Arabic language was inaugurated in the town of ‘Tefragh ...