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Germany: Three Iraqi refugees stand trial for plotting terror attacks

The German justice Monday began in Hamburg the trial of three Iraqi men charged of plotting terror attacks against non-Muslim believers. The defendants were arrested in January in the northwestern state of Schleswig-Holstein. The prosecution charged two of them, both aged 23, for trying to manufacture explosives using black powder from firework. The third, aged […]

MCA-Morocco Agency holds strategic orientation board

The Millennium Challenge Account-Morocco Agency (MCA-Morocco) held, on Tuesday in Rabat, the 8th session of its Strategic Orientation Board, under the chairmanship of Minister of Economy and Finance Mohamed Benchaaboun. The session reviewed the implementation report of the cooperation program under the “Compact II”, concluded between the Moroccan government and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) […]

Tunisia dismantles ISIS recruiting cells, signs €20m aid with France

Few days after Tunisia lifted the state of emergency decreed in July, the interior ministry announced on Tuesday that police neutralized three recruiting “cells” for the Islamic State and arrested 11 people. The statement released by the interior ministry said the dismantled three cells were recruiting youths and sending them to Libya to join the […]