A video circulating on social media on Sunday showed the confessions of an Egyptian ISIS member who was recently arrested by Libyan army forces. He spoke about how he was recruited with many other Egyptians from Cairo and then taken to Derna in Libya. He said that they are then sent to hot spot areas between Egyptian Sinai, Mali and Syria.
The US justice department’s counterterrorism division has revived its plan to acquire balloons to keep the border between Libya and Tunisia under surveillance, saying that following the failure of Lockheed Martin and TCOM, two other US firms are still in the running, according to the French website, Africa Intelligence.
The owner of the well-known @MzmjerSh Twitter account revealed in a thread on June 22nd that Ahrar al-Sham is experiencing major defections within its ranks.
@MzmjerSh focuses on jihadist affairs, and the man behind it is believed to be a former jihadist leader in Jabhat al-Nusra.
“The Ahrar al-Sham movement is currently witnessing a major turning point since about 1,000 fighters who form the backbone of the commando forces, and the special forces have defected. The division came as a result of disputes with the movement’s leadership over some internal reforms that these fighters had demanded,” @MzmjerSh said.
Operation Guardian of the Walls caused millions of dollars in damages to Gaza, claimed the World Bank, which is hoping to mobilize donors.
The Gaza war in May caused structural and economic damage to the coastal enclave valued at $570 million, the World Bank said in a preliminary report published on Tuesday.
US assistance to Gaza is going to provide emergency shelter, food relief, health care and mental health care.
US funding for Gaza won’t go to Hamas, vowed acting assistant secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Joey Hood as he explained that the humanitarian assistance would flow to regional actors through transparent and legitimate channels.
The US will provide assistance to Gaza “through trusted, vetted, independent partners who distribute directly to the people in need, not through Hamas,” Hood said, when he spoke Tuesday at a panel discussion at the Wilson Center.
The international community has scrambled in the aftermath of the 11-day Gaza war in May, to find a way to prevent Hamas from confiscating civilian rehabilitation funds. Hood said such a mechanism would come on top of existing stiff regulations with regard to financial assistance for Palestinians.
Salvini said he would make the Italian and EU Parliaments understand the terrorist organization’s intentions in its war against Israel and its ambition to spread Islam around the world.
At a panel on the European reaction to Operation Guardian of the Walls this past Monday, Italian Senator Matteo Salvini announced that he would distribute the text of the Hamas Charter to his fellow members of the Italian and European Parliaments in order to raise awareness of the threat the pose.
Prosecutors in Sicily have launched an investigation against the Libyan coastguard after footage emerged appearing to show officials firing on a boat of migrant families in the Mediterranean Sea.
Rarely has an election in a small post-Soviet country been watched so closely.
Armenia held a snap poll on June 20, after months of turbulence following its crushing defeat in an unexpected six-week war with Azerbaijan over the long-disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh late last year.
Des comptes clients vides et jusqu’à 3,6 milliards de dollars volatilisés, des milliers de clients touchés et deux adolescents dans le collimateur de la justice.
Ameer et Raees Cajee, âgés respectivement de 18 et 20 ans, ont fondé la plateforme de crypto-monnaies Africrypt, qui a commencé à fonctionner depuis l’Afrique du Sud en 2019.
Un nouveau billet de banque de 50 dollars zimbabwéens, plus grosse coupure à ce jour, est entré en circulation dans ce pays d’Afrique australe plombé par l’inflation et vaut… à peine 50 cents d’euro (ou 60 cents de dollar).
La banque centrale du Zimbabwe a annoncé l’introduction de ce nouveau billet mardi, qui est insuffisant pour acheter une miche de pain. Il a immédiatement ravivé les souvenirs de l’hyperinflation observée il y a plus de dix ans: quand la hausse des prix était devenue incontrôlable, les coupures de l’époque pouvaient atteindre jusqu’à 100 milliards de dollars.
