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Morocco bought €127 million worth of French arms in 2016, making it the second weapon market for France in Africa, said the French Defense Ministry. Morocco came second in terms of spending on French arms behind Egypt, which spent €1.3 billion in the same year, the Ministry said in a report. Since 2012, French arm […]
The Libyan National Army commander, aligned with east-based rival government, Khalifa Haftar has been reportedly receiving military aid from Israel with the secret support of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which backs him against the UN-sponsored Government of National Accord (GNA), reports say. London-based The New Arab, citing a source close to the Field Marshal […]
Morocco spent $6.2 billion on weapon deals from 2011 to 2015, said an annual Congressional study dubbed, “Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2008-2015, one of the most comprehensive assessments of global arms sales available in an unclassified form. The US continues to be the main arms supplier of Morocco over the same period with […]
The Tunisian Interior Ministry Tuesday announced security forces found a cache of weapons and ammunition in the town of Ben Guerdane, lying at the border with neighboring Libya. The cache included 29 Kalashnikov, 3 RPG rocket launchers and 130 machine guns, the ministry said in a statement. The security forces also found boxes for 9,520 […]