Original sentence: On the 30th of March, according to a spokesman for the  army,  fighters from Al-Qaeda in IslamiAQIattacked the city late on Saturday night and continued fighting till Sunday.The Battle of Timbuktu was a phase of the Northern Mali conflict, taking place in late March 2013, in which two Islamist attacks targeted the Malian army in Timbuktu
Edited sentence: On the 30th of March, according to a spokesman for the  army,  fighters from Al-Qaeda attacked the city late on Saturday night and continued fighting till Sunday.The Battle of Timbuktu was a phase of the Northern Mali conflict, taking place in late March 2013, in which two terrorist attacks targeted the Malian army in Timbuktu