Washington Cancels Military Drills amidst Mounting Criticism of U.S. Stand on Egypt

While more and more voices, including those of Congressmen and editorialists, are criticizing the Obama Administration’s stand on the crisis in Egypt and denouncing as incoherent its foreign policy, President Barack Obama announced that the United States is cancelling its biennial joint military exercise with Egypt, initially scheduled for September. “While we want to sustain […]

Moroccans express wrath at Algeria’s Echourouk TV smear campaign

Moroccan politicians, intellectuals, artists, media bodies, sports clubs, and ordinary citizens have all strongly denounced as the worst excesses of unethical journalism the Algerian channel “Echourouk” which dared to attack the Moroccan people and Monarch.   The Algerian channel, which broadcast a satirical program clearly attacking the Kingdom and King Mohammed VI, perhaps did not […]

Libya: number of missing people exceeds 600, Amnesty report

More than 600 people have gone missing in Libya between February 2014 and April 2015 and the fate and whereabouts of at least 378 remain unknown, though the real numbers are likely to be much higher. The figures were disclosed Wednesday by Amnesty International in its latest report on Libya which imputed the alarming situation […]