Two car bombs struck Thursday the Libyan capital of Tripoli, near the foreign ministry and the Abu Sitta Naval Base, housing the official office the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA.) The two car bombings made no casualties, security sources report. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks. UN-sponsored GNA since entering Tripoli late March […]
Algerian Islamist extremist Djamel Okacha has become the new commander of operations of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Northern Mali, replacing Abu Zeid who was killed in a French-led military campaign in the impoverished African country. The confirmed death of Abu Zeid, who raised millions of dollars from kidnapping of Western hostages, […]
The dissolution of the Algerian League of Human Rights shows “the escalating repression of the Algerian regime which is crushing and suffocating the popular pro-democracy Hirak movement, commented on Thursday French daily “Le Monde”. Hundreds of prisoners of conscience are now locked up and countless human rights militants have been banned from leaving the country […]
