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Four Egyptian workers belonging to state-owned power company lost their lives Sunday in the city of Al-Arish, in the Sinai Peninsula after their car hit a roadside bomb believed to have been planted by the Islamic State (IS) group, reports Read more
US President Barack Obama is expected to prolong for a third consecutive month the US air campaign in Libya against the Islamic State (IS) militants, Fox News reported citing US security officials close to the campaign. The US air force Read more
Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesman for the US-led coalition, revealed that US troops have increased from around 4,000 to 4,460 within a week as Iraqi forces continue “shaping operations” for the assault on Mosul, the capital of the self-declared Islamic Read more
Tunisia has voiced concerns over the fight against the Islamic State (IS) in Libya as it fears that the extremist fighters could sneak through its borders and carry on with their atrocities. Defense Minister Farhat Hachani was speaking on the Read more
Clashes between forces loyal to the UN-backed government and the Islamic State have intensified during the weekend. Spokesman of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Reda Issa described it as “the final battle for Sirte” since the offensive to take Read more
U.S. military Tuesday revealed it deployed gunships to deal precise blows to the Islamic State (IS) militant position in Sirte. The U.S. African Command providing help to Misrata forces fighting under the banner of Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) Read more
An Egyptian police conscript was killed Friday and five others were injured by improvised explosive device (IED) in Al-Arish, in North Sinai, reports say. The conscript, 22, was killed after the explosive went off in the western part of Arish. Read more
Egypt’s former leading mufti Ali Gomaa narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in Cairo on Friday. Armed men tried to kill Gomaa as he was entering a mosque in 6 October city on the outskirts of Cairo on Friday afternoon, where Read more
Moroccan authorities have announced this Wednesday the arrest of 52 Islamic State suspects who were planning terror attacks in the North African kingdom. The Isis militants were captured in an impressive anti-terror operation launched by the Moroccan security services which Read more
Qamishli, referred to as the capital of self-declared autonomous Kurdish state on Syrian territory, suffered its first major attack with a truck bomb that killed at least 40 people and injured more than a 100. The Islamic State claimed responsibility Read more