Extremist Pleads Guilty to Destroying Holy Sites in Timbuktu
PARIS — An Islamic extremist pleaded guilty on Monday at theInternational Criminal Court to destroying shrines and damaging a mosque in the Malian city of Timbuktu, in the court’s first prosecution of the destruction of cultural heritage as a war crime. Prosecutors have said that Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, a member of a […]