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Increasing number of voices, including families of Paris attacks victims, have expressed their discontent over the payment by the State of a lawyer to assist Salah Abdeslam in the process of investigations. The suspect number one in the attacks is now in custody in France. Elisabeth Boissinot, mother of a 25-year-old young woman killed in […]
Morocco’s Bureau Central d’Investigations Judiciares (BCIJ,) dubbed Morocco’s FBI, Friday nabbed in the city of Nador a terror cell planning terrorist attacks and tasked to form an Emirate in the kingdom, reports say. The terror cell made of three men, according to a statement by the interior ministry, received instructions to establish an Emirate in […]
The Mauritanian army Wednesday snatched 475 kilograms of drugs from a group of traffickers after a chase and gun battle. According to army sources, the incident took place in the area of “Al Hank”, more than 250 km, north-east of the town of Zouerate. The traffickers were tracked by an army unit and a military […]
US troops stationed in the north-eastern part of Egypt’s Sinai as part of international forces to monitor border between Egypt and Israel may be removed as Washington fears the growing threat of terrorism in the Egyptian restive peninsula, reports say. The Obama Administration is reportedly considering moving its 707 troops from El-Gorah camp, near the […]
EU Foreign Policy Chief, Federica Mogherini, is expected Friday in the Moroccan capital city Rabat, in a move to re-warm ties with the North African country just a week after Rabat froze ties with the EU bloc. “This visit offers a chance to discuss bilateral relations between Morocco and the European Union and the state […]
Tunisian security forces killed late Monday four militants in a clash near the Algerian border, the Interior Ministry announced. “Special Forces units killed four terrorists in Ain Jafal region between Sbeitla and Jelma in clashes,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement without giving further details. The information came as London announced some 20 British […]
Leaders of the Tunisian Islamist Party Ennahdha, Rached Ghannouchi Sunday lambasted the Islamic State fighters hitting Tunisia as he called them “incompetent children.” Ghannouchi who was speaking during a regional congress of his party in Sfax said those fighters are useless and good-for-nothing. He also lashed out at the US recent air strikes in Libya […]
Tunisian former Minister of the Interior Mohamed Najem Gharsalli has been appointed Wednesday as the country’s new ambassador to Rabat. Gharsalli received his letters of credentials from President Caid Essebsi at a ceremony organized at the presidential palace. Gharsalli had been appointed as Interior Minister last year in February but was replaced early this year […]
Some 180 French troops have reportedly arrived in Libya to support the Libyan National Army linked to the Libyan internationally recognized government based in the East of the country. According to Libyan press reports, French troops were spotted at Banina airbase and Bu Utni fight axis. However, Libyaobserver pointed out that troops are unwelcome as […]
King Mohammed VI is expected in Paris next Wednesday on a working and friendship visit to France, during which he will confer with President Francois Hollande. During this summit meeting, the two heads of State will discuss an array of issues of common interest, primarily bilateral cooperation, the situation in North Africa, and the two […]