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Tunisia: ISIS fighters handed 38 years in prison in multiple sentences

A Tunis court has handed several prison sentences to numerous Islamic State Group (ISIS) fighters for joining the terror group. A first verdict by the Court of First Instance pressed two years in jail against a local construction contractor for joining the terror group in 2013. After he spent two years with the organization in […]

UN chief slams Burkina Faso for expelling top envoy accused of ‚discrediting country’

Burkina Faso had no grounds for ordering senior UN official Barbara Manzi to leave the country because the doctrine of “persona non grata” could not be applied to her, the United Nations has said in a statement after the military government ordered Manzi to leave Burkina Faso immediately. The military government in Ouagadougou expelled the […]

Israel-Gaza Truce – Peace until the Next War?

Recently, a truce was mediated – by Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi – between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza. But … how long can such a truce last before the new round of warfare is unleashed? Notwithstanding many obvious analogies with the previous tensions between the two sides (such as Operation Cast Lead at the […]