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The Algerian government has reportedly reached in 2012 a secret agreement with Algerian terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar to attack Moroccan interests in the Sahara, reveals a confidential e-mail of former US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, made public by Wikileaks on Thursday “According to sources with access to the Algerian DGSE, the Bouteflika government reached a […]
Cooperation between Morocco and France in the fields of security and fight against terrorism is in full swing as evidenced by the regular contacts and continued dialog between the two partner countries. Just a couple of weeks after Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and the French President François Hollande held a meeting at the Elysée during […]
Libyan National Army Tuesday announced it liberated the last jihadist-held area of Benghazi after two years of fighting. “We have totally liberated the area of Lithi,” said Fadel al-Hassi, of Libya’s Special Forces. Lithi neighborhood had been a stronghold of militant groups including the Islamic State. Loyalists led by the Libyan Army Chief Commander Khalifa […]
The Tunisian Interior Ministry announced Monday it arrested 16 jihadist suspects in the governorate of Jendouba who were planning to set up a training camp. A group of seven was first arrested in the town of Ouez Meliz after security forces were tipped about the presence of suspicious people. Investigation and interrogation of the seven […]
Tunisian President Caid Essebsi has extended the state of emergency for another month to start on February 22, Presidency spokesman Moez Sinaoui announced to media on Sunday. The decision was made after consultations with the Prime Minister and the Speaker of the Parliament on national security dominated by the critical situation at the border with […]
Algerian Defence Ministry in a wrap-up of 2015 counter-terrorism operations Sunday indicated that a total of 109 terrorists have been killed and 39 arrested by the national army. The ministry put at 109 the number of terrorists killed in 2015 while the number of captives is 39. The ministry also announced that the army during […]
Analysts and Islamic State experts are wary of the progression of the terrorist group in Libya in redirection towards Algeria and fear that Algeria for its oil infrastructure may fall prey to the militants. According to reports the current progression of IS towards the Libyan Fezzan region is a considerable threat to Algeria as the […]
Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) announced in a video recording Tuesday the execution of three “spies” working for the Mauritanian and the French intelligence services, reports say. The group which has been battling the Mauritanian, Malian armies in the Sahel showed in the video recording entitled “traitors” it killed Cheikh Bay Ould Mohamed Ould Habib […]
Algerian police forces broke Wednesday a sit-in of workers of the banned El Watan El Djazairia TV and arrested 18 protestors, reports said. A total of 18 participants in the sit-in have been arrested while they were protesting the closure of El Watan El Djazairia TV, one of Algiers’ private TV stations. “Police forces raided […]
Moroccan and Spanish security services have carried out this weekend another successful anti-terror operation which enabled them to capture in total 10 members of a cell which recruits and sends fighters to the Islamic State. Six of the members of this Isis recruiting group were arrested in Moroccan economic capital city of Casablanca, while the […]