Syrian authorities have said that their air forces have shot down what they described as “a hostile US surveillance aircraft in Latakia” province, the stronghold of Bachar al-Assad in north-west of Syria. The state-controlled Syrian news agency said “air defences brought down a hostile US surveillance plane in northern Latakia”, stressing that the hit aircraft […]
Morocco has extended the anti-coronavirus restrictive measures for one more week as it still waits for the launch of a mass vaccination campaign. The measures include a night curfew, closure of restaurants at 20:00 and maintenance of ban on public gatherings. The government said that the extension of the measures aimed at containing the outbreak […]
Former US ambassador to Tunisia Gordon Gray has urged the President Kais Saied not to take a leaf out of ex- autocratic Ben Ali’s book, noting that the incumbent Tunisian leader has a disdain for democratic institutions and disregard for the economy. “In August, I warned that Saied seemed to be following in Ben Ali’s […]
