blast outside National Cancer Institute in Cairo

Tunisian Syphax Airlines, TUI-Russia ink deal

Tunisian private airline Syphax Airlines will fly to the North African country 50,000 Russian holidaymakers next year following an agreement with Russian tour operator TUI-Russia. Per the agreement, Syphax Airlines will use Moscow International airport and its services. Russian authorities have allowed tour operators to resume flying Russian tourists to Tunisia and several other countries […]

Algeria: Popular independence war veteran arrested for alleged insult to army

Algerian authorities have arrested a prominent independence war veteran for allegedly demoralizing and insulting the army. The office of Algiers prosecutor Sunday ordered the temporarily detention of Lakhdar Bouregaa, one of Algeria’s iconic war veterans in the 1954 to 1962 liberation fight against France. His arrest at his residence in an upmarket neighborhood of Algiers […]

Egypt: 46 militants, three soldiers killed in shootouts in Sinai-Army

The Egyptian army said it has eliminated 46 militants in the restive Sinai province in several gun battles that also claimed lives of three soldiers. The army in February last year launched an operation in the Sinai province to flash out Islamist state fighters and other militant groups. In a video recording made public Monday, […]