The similarities to a killer character from an online warfare game to a news agency's recent photograph of an actual soldier with French forces in Mali is called unacceptable by a military spokesman in France.

A leader of Ansar Dine, one of the main Islamic militant groups fighting to control Mali, said that he would form his own group to seek negotiations to settle the country’s crisis.

Days after the deadly hostage crisis in Algeria, Britain urged any British citizens in Benghazi to leave immediately and warned against travel to several other Libyan cities.

The war in Mali is not just about preventing terrorism; it’s a fight to defend a secular, tolerant society.

The companies operating the site that was attacked last week chose not to deploy armed guards, leading security analysts to question whether the assault could have been slowed by tighter security.