First Independent Mena Newspaper
A roadside bomb explosion in a populated neighborhood of Cairo late Wednesday injured three people and damaged police cars, reports say. State-run news agency Mena explained that the explosion emanated from an explosive device which was placed in the street of in the Feisal neighborhood. The agency added that device was detonated as police convoy […]
It is clear that the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, whose second & last term expires on 31 December 2016, has overstepped his UN mission and betrayed his neutrality in dealing with the Sahara issue during his recent visit to the region. His inappropriate comments irked the Moroccan government which said on Tuesday that it […]
The Tunisian army and security forces have killed seven suspected terrorists Tuesday in a deadly raid near the border with Libya, Interior Minister said on Tuesday. “During a raid at Guerdane, security forces and the army eliminated five terrorists around Benniri,” the minister said in a press release. According to local reports, the raid follows […]
Several attempts by the Tobruk-based parliament to hold a vote of confidence of the national unity government proposed by Prime-Minister designate Fayz al-Serraj have failed. The latest session of the House of Representatives (HoR) took place on Tuesday but failed to reach a quorum. The establishment of a unity government under the Libya Political Agreement […]
Morocco has renewed its unflinching support to Palestinian statehood and to any initiative seeking the end of Israeli occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Al Quds as its capital. “We welcome and support any serious initiative aimed at ending the Israeli occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian State, within the 1967 […]
Algeria, member of the OPEC Cartel and a major oil & gas producer in the region, has raised regional and international concerns when it announced plans to build a nuclear power plant at a time social tensions are growing at home amid a political and economic crisis. The Algerian nuclear project was discussed lately with […]
Jihadists who launched twin and coordinated attacks against military and security forces in the town of Ben Guerdane, near Libyan border planned to establish an “Islamic Emirate”, Prime Minister Essid revealed in a televised address Monday. “The purpose of the attack was to disrupt the security situation in our country and establish a Daesh emirate […]
Moroccan security services have interrupted another deadly ISIS terrorist plot seeking to undermine the North African country’s peace and stability. Morocco’s Interior Ministry announced Monday it has dismantled a five-member Islamic State group cell planning to carry out bomb attacks using a pressure cooker in crowded public places. The cell members, linked to ISIS, were […]
Tunisian security forces killed early Monday 13 terrorists and arrested 6 others after assailants launched twin attacks against a military barrack and security check points at Ben Guerdane, in the governorate of Medenine. The Defense Ministry spokesman Belhassen Oueslati told reporters that forces took control of the situation after a group of terrorists launched coordinated […]
Egyptian authorities have claimed that Hisham Barakat, the country’s chief prosecutor, was assassinated June last year in a plot planned by the country’s Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The allegations were made by Interior minister Magdy Abde Ghaffar in a televised press conference on Sunday shortly after prosecutors ordered six people, accused […]