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Threat of use of sarin gas against Morocco is taking serious tone as local media in the kingdom Monday indicate that IS in Libya now in possession of stocks of the dreadful gas is marching through Sahara with Morocco standing as potential victim. According to the Moroccan daily Assabah relayed by the le360.ma, IS has […]
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 […]
Moroccan Security services carry on their proactive preemptive operations and strikes against terrorist networks and sleeping cells. They have just announced the arrest two of more suspects with links to the Islamic State. One of the suspects was nabbed in the eastern city of Berkane. He pledged allegiance to the terrorist Islamic radical organisation and […]
Tunisia’s Prime Minister Habib Essid is on a working visit to Jordan as the head of a delegation for the 8th Tunisian-Jordanian joint commission meeting. He met separately with King Abdullah II, his Jordanian counterpart and other senior government officials as both countries intend to increase their scope of cooperation. King Abdullah wants to build […]
Italian Foreign Minister Wednesday announced that Rome would host an international conference to find solutions to the Libyan crisis and to draw plans to disrupt IS hold on the North African country. Paolo Gentiloni told Italian Parliament Wednesday Rome would host an international conference on the Italian former colony. According to Gentiloni, the conference would […]
A U.N monitoring group released a report on the situation in Libya warning that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is focusing its attention on the North African country with its base in Sirte. The report stated that militants in Sirte are much more controlled by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader, and slogans […]
A secret cell of women sympathetic of IS group has been exposed in London, after an undercover investigation revealed that the women held secret meetings to promote the agenda of the terrorist group. The undercover investigation is the work of the British TV Channel 4 which infiltrated the secret cell through a member of the […]
Tunisian foreign minister said Saturday in Paris that security is deteriorating in his country because of combined activity between terrorists and traffickers and called for an international coordinated response to the threatening surge in terrorism. It is “a Mafia made up of terrorists and human traffickers,” Taieb Baccouche said at a debate organised by Tunisia’s […]
Tunisia has rejected as “inaccurate” the recent press reports indicating that the terrorist cell of the Sahel was about to perpetrate a large-scale operation in the country. The Interior Ministry’s press officer Walid Louguini said the press reports are “not accurate” but did not denied them outright. He said the public will be informed “at […]
Head of Russian Intelligence Service, Alexander Bortnikov, confirmed Tuesday that the Russian jet crash in Sinai was an act of terrorism and that a homemade bomb with the equivalent of “a kilo of TNT” destroyed the airplane. “One can say unambiguously that it was a terror act,” Bortnikov said, adding that Russian experts found out […]