First Independent Mena Newspaper
The controversy triggered by the pro-Saddam chants and sectarian slogans sung by Algerian supporters of USMA team that played Iraqi al-Quwa al-Jawiya in Baghdad on Sunday has not faded away. Algeria’s ambassador was summoned by Iraqi foreign minister to protest the incident, and in all Iraqi cities, the names of streets related to Algeria or […]
The numbers of terrorist attacks and deaths worldwide declined in 2017 for the third consecutive year, according to latest data released by the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). Last year, there were 10,900 terrorist attacks around the world, which killed more than 26,400 people, including […]
Representatives of member countries of the US-led international coalition fighting ISIS (Daesh) will meet Tuesday in Morocco’s capital city of Rabat at the level of political Directors. The gathering confirms the key role the North African Kingdom plays in the fight against global terror and jihadists. The Rabat meeting will be an opportunity for Coalition […]
Morocco is readying to reopen its embassy in Iraq, after the diplomatic mission has been closed for thirteen years for security reasons. The embassy, closed after two Moroccan nationals were kidnapped in 2005, will reopen in the coming weeks, affirmed local daily Akhbar Al Yaoum, in its Thursday issue. The reopening of the Moroccan Embassy […]
The setbacks suffered by IS in the Syrian and Iraqi fronts are pushing thousands of foreign fighters to return to their home-countries where they pose a serious risk to stability and security. Morocco is one of the countries with a significant number of foreign fighters in the Middle East whose return puts authorities on high […]
Lebanese former minister of Culture and current Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs is seemingly the future head of the UNSMIL as current German veteran diplomat Martin Kobler is stepping down at the end of this month, Libya Herald reports citing diplomatic sources. The 66-year old Lebanese man according to Libyan diplomatic sources […]
By the end of 2016, 204 Jihadists left the Spanish-occupied cities of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco to join the ranks of the Islamic State (Daesh) in Irak and Syria, warns a report of the Spanish intelligence services. Relayed by the Moroccan media, the report dealing with the issue of foreign fighters from the […]
The International Institute for Strategic Studies issued its annual Armed Conflict Survey showing that the region of the Middle East and North Africa continues to top the global list of conflict fatalities with 83,000 people dead in 2016. The global think tank with offices in the UK, USA, Asia, and the Middle East, noted that […]
Morocco and Spain will hold their 2nd forum on security and war against terrorism on May 19 in Rabat to look into ways of coordinating further actions against jihadists and extremists between the two neighboring countries in the region and worldwide. The first edition of the event was convened last year in Madrid. The 2nd […]
The International Monetary Fund has urged countries of the Middle East and North Africa to diversify their economies and implement policies that support jobs and productivity, like education and infrastructure reforms. Growth is slightly improving in this region, largely driven by higher oil prices and improved export prospects, said the IMF in its latest regional […]