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Egypt: UK lifts ban on flights to Sharm el-Sheikh

The United Kingdom Tuesday lifted travel restrictions to Egypt’s Red Sea Sharm el-Sheikh resort, four years after the Islamic State group (ISIS) brought down a Russian passenger jet. British authorities in 2015 imposed ban on flights to and from the resort city in reaction to the downing of the aircraft shortly after takeoff. The jet […]

PJD to join opposition after humiliating electoral failure

Morocco’s Islamist PJD party said it will join the opposition after leading the government for two consecutive terms. The Party’s general secretariat members said they were resigning including its leader Saad Dine El Otmani. The party is in disarray after it came eighth in general elections with only 13 in the 395-seat parliament, in what […]

US counter-terrorism official raises alarm about jihadist expansion in Africa

A senior US counterterrorism official has raised alarms about the increasing threat posed by global jihadist groups, warning that they are, for example, expanding their activities from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso into Benin and Togo, which had once had little exposure to jihadi threats. Speaking at a recent Washington conference, Sebastian Gorka noted that […]