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Justice Michael Alexander Soole sentences Paul Moore to lifetime incarceration with a minimum imprisonment of 20 years for using his car to attack Muslims following a string of terror attacks in 2017 linked to Islamic extremism.
2018-03-27

Ahmad al-Mahdi pleads guilty at the start of his trial before the International Criminal Court for the war crime of destroying cultural sites in Timbuktu.
2016-08-22

The governments of Somalia, Tajikistan and Brunei ban celebrations of Christmas, with punishments ranging up to a five-year jail term. Each country has a majority-Muslim population.
2015-12-23

French President François Hollande promises to investigate claims that French Army soldiers were involved in sexual child abuse in the Central African Republic.
2015-05-1

A French anti-terror soldier is stabbed in the neck in a suspected copycat of the 2013 Woolwich attack.
2013-05-25

French forces prepare an attack on Timbuktu to defeat Islamists, as more African troops are sent into Mali.
2013-01-27

The Malian army used artillery on Islamist rebels in Gnimignama in the first skirmish between the two belligerents since April 2012, when Islamist and Tuareg rebels first assumed control of the region.
2013-01-8

The tomb of Muslim saint Sidi Mahmoud Ben Amar, part of the World Heritage Site in Timbuktu, Mali, is attacked and burned by Islamist fighters.
2012-05-7

Egyptian authorities release blogger Kareem Amer who was imprisoned for four years for insulting Islam and defaming President Hosni Mubarak.
2010-11-18

At least 16 people are killed in a stampede at Djinguereber Mosque in Mali's northwestern city of Timbuktu.
2010-02-26