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Tripoli-based Libyan authorities have warned their Italian counterparts against planned terror attacks by an Islamic State group’s local cell in Milan. The cell is reportedly sponsored by a veteran jihadist formerly deported by Rome. Forces aligned with the Tripoli-based Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) made, over the weekend, further advances into the city of […]
Moroccan bus operator, City Bus, will be in charge of urban bus transportation in the Guinean capital Conakry, under an agreement between the Guinean Transport Ministry and the company. City Bus will also ensure bus links to the outskirts of the city as well as inter-urban transport, the Guinean transport ministry said in a statement, […]
As foreign policy debates heat up in the American 2016 presidential election campaign, Republican candidate Donald Trump has taken aim at rival Hillary Clinton accusing her of supporting Islamist parties in North Africa, including Morocco’s ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD.) Nobody doubts Donald Trump’s anti-Islam sentiment and everybody knows that the Republican candidate does […]
India has openly voiced support for Morocco’s return to the African Union, a decision, which cements longstanding ties between the two countries, the Times of India reported. “India welcomes Morocco’s initiative to re-join the African Union. India enjoys close relationship with all African nations, including Morocco,” spokesperson for the Indian Foreign Ministry said, describing the […]
Russia is set to expand its share in the arms markets by increasing sales to the North African states of Morocco and Tunisia besides its largest client in the region, Algeria, at a regional context marked by a surge of terrorist activities. “Military cooperation between Russia and Muslim countries, especially in North Africa, is building up. Morocco, […]
A man armed with a knife went on rampage Wednesday night killing a woman in her 60s and stabbing five others in Russell Square, central London. The police, which rushed to the scene within five minutes, arrested the suspect, 19, after using a Taser electric shock gun. London Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley told […]
President Erdogan claimed that foreign parties were involved in last month’s failed coup against his government stating that it “was not just an event planned from the inside.” “The actors inside acted out a scenario for a coup written from the outside,” he said, before scolding the West for “supporting terror and standing by the […]
Morocco is the second biggest buyer of Spanish Arms in Africa with imports totaling 452 million dirhams in 2015, Spain’s Trade Ministry said. In a bid to diversify its arms suppliers, Morocco is buying military equipment and ammunition from Spain, Spain’s Trade Ministry said in a report, adding that Egypt tops the list of Spanish […]
Moroccan intelligence services warned French authority of the Tuesday terror act against Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray Roman Catholic Church which claimed the life of priest Jacques Hamel. Morocco sent the photo of the second attacker, French Magazine Marianne reports. Marianne in a Thursday report claimed that French authorities were sent on July 22; four days before the attack, […]
Pope Francis, head of Roman Catholic Church Wednesday indicated that the world is at war but rejected claims that religion is the source a day after two Islamic State (IS) sympathizers slit the throat of a Roman Catholic priest in France. Speaking to reporters on his plane en route from Rome to the Polish city […]