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Tunisia’s Transport ministry announced earlier this week it is allowing resumption of commercial flights from disintegrated Libya after it suspended all flights on security grounds. Tunisian authorities suspended flights form Miitiga airport, near Tripoli and Misrata, in the east of Tripoli last August because of security reasons. The Tunisian ministry of transport indicated in a […]
A blast caused by a car bombing attack ripped the façade of a state security building in Cairo early Thursday leaving 29 people wounded, state television said Thursday. Security sources investigating the attack indicated that the attack took place in Shubra al-Khaima, a Cairo suburb, injured 29 people, and left a burned-out vehicle and crater. […]
A Security source at the Cairo international airport indicated Tuesday a senior Hamas official has been detained after issues were found about his travel document. The source said Hassan Asseify, the deputy religious affairs minister in Hamas-ruled Gaza, was stopped on his way back from Saudi Arabia to Gaza. The source said Cairo airport security […]
Tunisia’s defense ministry indicated Tuesday two of its soldiers died after a landmine exploded near the Algerian border. “Two soldiers died, one last night and the second early this morning, after they were injured in a landmine explosion in Mount Mghila on Monday,” the ministry’s spokesman Belhassen Oueslati told the media. The ministry did not […]
After Tobruk-based government’s last week call for the intervention of Arab states to help it fight the militants of the Islamic State (IS) in Libya, the Arab League held an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday and acknowledged that “the situation has become more pressing in the difficult circumstances to speed up putting together an Arab strategy” […]
The arrest over the weekend in Morocco of a gangster who was on the lam after he was involved in an armed robbery case dating back to July 31, 2013 in Cannes, a city located on the French Riviera, translates the excellent cooperation and partnership existing between France and Morocco in security matters. Nabil Ibelati, […]
The arrest over the weekend in Morocco of a gangster who was on the lam after he was involved in an armed robbery case dating back to July 31, 2013 in Cannes, a city located on the French Riviera, translates the excellent cooperation and partnership existing between France and Morocco in security matters. Nabil Ibelati, […]
On the heels of the barbaric acts committed by ISIS in Sirte over the weekend, Italian foreign minister called on the international community to take quick actions to ensure that Libya does not become “another Somalia” reference to a “failed state.” “We will find ourselves with another Somalia two steps from our coasts,” said the […]
Algeria is trying to balance its finances as its economy continues to struggle due to the low global oil and gas prices that are affecting countries heavily dependent on such revenues. A source close to the North African country’s Central Bank hinted that the authorities at the bank let the Algerian dinar to depreciate against […]
The Royal Moroccan Air Force got delivery on Saturday of three new refurbished CH-47D Chinook transport helicopters. The Chinook aircrafts arrived at the port of Tanger-Med, Tangier, aboard the US registered cargo vessel MV Liberty Pride. The delivery of the three CH-47 helicopters is part of a foreign military sales case facilitated by the Security […]