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The Islamic State group’s adherents Wednesday celebrated the death of 14 people in a shooting in San Bernardino, California, by three gunmen calling the suspects “three lions.” American vocativ media published Thursday posts of IS supporters celebrating the killing of 14 people by three gunmen including a woman. Messages from the adherents flooded the web […]
On the second day of the three-day Annual Conference of Heads of Diplomatic, Permanent and Consular Missions in Tunis, Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche said the decision to appoint a consul-general in Damascus was in the interest of the Tunisian state and its citizens despite the Arab League sidelining the Assad regime. Speaking to reporters on […]
Ahmed Wald Habib al-Rahman, considered to be the Mufti of Mauritania, told President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and other high officials that the country needs to create a Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, or religious police, in order to enforce Sharia in Mauritania. During an encounter at the Grand […]
Egyptian court has sentenced on Wednesday, the leftist revolutionary and prominent activist Ahmed Douma to life imprisonment for “illegal gathering”, “arms”, “disturbing public order”, “vandalism” and “inciting violence. The court also sentenced 229 others to life in jail in absentia for the same charges, and 39 juveniles received 10-year sentences in absentia. These liberal activists […]
Libya’s House of Representatives have decided that the next president of the country will be elected directly by the people. The decision was massively supported by the parliamentarians who were present. A date is yet to be fixed for the elections because an electoral method has not been adopted for the time being. The direct […]
U.S marines have been deployed to southern Italy due to “the general unrest in Northern Africa”, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren stated. The decision to move 200 marines from Spain to Italy is seen as a “prudent measure” to avoid a repeat of the scenario which led to the killing of Christopher Stevens while serving […]
Egypt is trying to lure tourists back into the country; a week after the clashes between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and the army left hundreds of people dead. Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said the situation is improving with time and gave assurances that there are no dangers in the main tourism areas. He urged […]
While protest movements and demonstrations, sometimes violent, are being staged across the Islamic world to denounce the video deemed insulting to Islam’s prophet Mohammed and to Muslims’ beliefs, Washington is fearing this violence may spread to the United States. According to US media, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have released a joint […]