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Moroccan security forces Saturday announced the arrest of a suspect connected to a terrorist cell arrested in France last month, reports say. The cell, affiliated to the Islamic State group (IS), was dismantled in Strasbourg, north-eastern France, mid-November. The five-man cell made of four French citizens and a Moroccan was planning to stage attacks in […]
A Moroccan citizen living in Turkey has been sentenced to eight years in prison for attempting to join the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria, Moroccan Daily, Al Massae, reported. The man known as Mamoun El Battoui and aged 42 was arrested in February in the town of Bursa, North of the country, for belonging […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Tuesday offered to help West African countries fight the growing terrorism threat. “Turkey has a vast experience in combating terrorism and we understand those countries suffering at the hands of terrorism best,” Erdoğan said as he was addressing the Ghanaian Parliament in Accra. Erdogan who was on a two-day visit […]
The fight against the Islamic State in Syria is slowly paving way to a fight for or against the stay of President Assad in power as regional and global powers continue to have opposing views over his role in the country. Saudi Arabia is adamant that Assad must leave and Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir claimed […]
A bomb blast rocked Tuesday morning the Turkish largest city of Istanbul killing at least 10 people and wounding 15 at the city’s historic square of Sultanahmet, early reports say. The blast was confirmed by the Istanbul government official website. According to reports, the blast occurred at around 10:15 local time near Obelisk of Theodosius […]
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu Monday threw Ankara’s support behind the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) in a meeting with Faiez Serraj, Libya’s unity government Prime Minister-designate, reports say. Prime Minister Davutoğlu according to Turkish reports relayed by Libya’s “Libya Herald” is very concerned by Libya’s unity and security and deems that the GNA […]
Erdogan-backed Justice and Development Party (AKP) stunned Turkish political circles as it secured Sunday a parliamentary majority in the November 1 election after it lost outright victory in the June 7 polls. AKP succeeded in clinching nearly 49 per cent of the total votes and thus secured more than 300 seats in the 550-seat Turkish […]
Algeria is closely monitoring its citizens planning to travel to countries like Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon and Sudan after it became clear that those who plan to join Islamist extremist groups like the Islamic State or Al-Qaeda tend to pass through other countries in order to cover their traces. Most of these […]
Face to face confrontations between the Turkish army and militants of the Islamic State took place on Thursday along the Syrian border when a pickup truck with 10 heavily armed ISIS members opened fire on Turkish troops stationed at a mountain border outpost. A cross-border firefight followed and a Turkish soldier is reported to have […]