Country Brand Awards – Morocco tops Africa ranking for Overall Category

Turkey: Journalists hauled in prison over Libya reporting

Several Turkish journalists have been detained for their reporting on government’s military campaign in Libya where Ankara backs the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). Baris Terkoglu, from the anti-government online news website OdaTV, was detained Thursday allegedly in connection with a report about a Turkish intelligence officer who was killed in Libya, Arab News […]

USA Welcomes Resolution 2468 on Sahara

The United States has welcomed the adoption on Tuesday by the UN Security Council of Resolution 2468 that renews for six months the MINURSO mandate, and underlined the importance of reaching a “realistic, pragmatic, and sustainable solution” to the Sahara issue through negotiations. At the end of the vote on the resolution Tuesday, Rodney Hunter, […]

Germany’s arms supply to Kurdistan, a breach to Iraqi sovereignty, MP

Iraq is trying to control the role of foreign countries in its fight against the ISIS that it considers as an internal affair despite concerns that the extremist group poses a threat to regional security and the West. Iraq welcomes foreign support in its fight against the ISIS group, whether military, humanitarian or logistical, but […]