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The Pentagon is carefully studying military intervention options in Libya against self-style IS, a US official told reporters. “We’re looking at military options, a range of other options as… the situation in Libya unfolds,” said Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook. Cook also explained that the expansion of the terrorist group is a major concern to […]
Cable news network Al Jazeera America announced Wednesday it is due to shut down its operations in America because of financial reasons. The network said it would stop operating by April 30, less than three years after it was launched in 2013 by Qatar-based global media group to bring unbiased news and rival main stream […]
The Islamic State group’s adherents Wednesday celebrated the death of 14 people in a shooting in San Bernardino, California, by three gunmen calling the suspects “three lions.” American vocativ media published Thursday posts of IS supporters celebrating the killing of 14 people by three gunmen including a woman. Messages from the adherents flooded the web […]
Moroccan and American government representatives and leading businessmen are expected in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 13 to take part in the second edition of the Morocco-US Trade and Investment forum. The gathering aims at promoting investment, trade and partnership opportunities between Moroccan and U.S. companies in the areas of renewable and hydrocarbon energies, aeronautics & […]
US Secretary Of State John Kerry announced Sunday in Cairo the normalization of relation with Cairo despite a long spell of confusion following the overthrow of first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi and the poor human right record of al-Sisi regime. At a joint press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shukri, Secretary of State […]
Turkey’s defense minister Ismet Yilmaz has maintained that the country has not sidelined plans to buy a new missile defense system from China despite concerns from NATO and the US that it will be incompatible with their defense systems. The missile defense system is to be supplied by China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp […]
Sluggish growth in Latin America’s largest economy is a blow to incumbent Dilma Rousseff.
On one side is the world’s most prominent political and military alliance, on the other a Russia actively looking beyond its borders into a Europe that has been a close partner for several years. However this is not the Cold War. At its fall the Soviet Union was struggling to compete in an arms race […]
A day after Japan’s Senior Vice Foreign Minister responsible for the Middle East, Europe and America expressed desires of enhancing military cooperation in the Sahel to promote stability, he has added that they are interested in importing gas from Algeria and investing in its energy sector. Senior Vice Foreign Minister Nobuo Kishi is on a […]
The security challenges posed to parts of the Atlantic Basin, particularly in Africa, by extremist ideology, weak institutions, economic uncertainty, and weak rule of law require a global and integrated approach that promotes socio-economic development. This is one of the conclusions reached by the Atlantic Dialogues 2013, an annual global issue forum that was held […]