DAKAR, Senegal -- Islamists who have taken control of one of Africa's most historic cities, Timbuktu, smashed the wooden door of an old mosque on Monday, continuing a campaign of destruction of religious monuments that has drawn condemnation from the United Nations and the International Criminal Court.

Two carloads of bearded men wearing turbans pulled up early Monday morning at the Sidi Yahya mosque, one of three centuries-old mosques in the city, according to several witnesses reached by telephone. Armed with axes, the men took about 40 minutes to destroy the mosque's wooden door, the witnesses said.

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