Eurasia Press & News

Nairobi – Almost 2 000 assault rifles plus grenade launchers and heavy machine guns were seized by an Australian warship, the navy said on Monday, part of international efforts to police the seas off Somalia. Sailors from Australia’s HMAS Darwin boarded the fishing boat that was “headed towards the Somalia …

The militants’ death toll rose to 42 following the security operation in Ben Guerdane in southwestern Tunisia, authorities said on Wednesday. At least seven terrorists were killed by security forces on Tuesday in an ongoing armed confrontation in Ben Guerdane near the Libyan border, the interior and defense ministries said …

Egypt has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted army and police posts in the Tunisian town of Ben Guerden near the Libyan border on Monday, killing at least 50 people. Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid extended Egypt’s deepest condolences to the Tunisian government and people. Abu Zeid …

Five terrorists were killed Wednesday in clashes with the military and security forces in the region of Ben Guerdane (south), near the Libyan border, told AFP the spokesman for the Tunisian Ministry of Defense. “Five terrorists holed up in a house in El Aouija were shot by the military and …

Representatives of the fifteen member countries of the UN Security Council have “found” during their visit to Mali “a real will to make peace” with all parties involved in the process, said one of these ambassadors Sunday in Bamako.

After a first foray in Tunisia, a terrorist group came from Libya launched attacks in Ben Guerdane Monday. Among the victims were 28 attackers, according to a provisional toll. The scenario is always the same. Aboard Car 4 × 4, armed men crossed the border between Libya and Tunisia at …

Egypt on Sunday accused the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas to be involved with the Muslim Brotherhood, in the attack that killed in 2015 in Cairo to the Attorney General Hisham Barakat. “This plot was executed on the orders of the Muslim Brotherhood (…) in close coordination with Hamas, which has …

Ouagadougou – The United Nations secretary general says he is deeply concerned by attacks by Islamic extremists in Burkina Faso and West Africa, urging a global response. Ban Ki-moon spoke on Thursday in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou. Extremists in January attacked a café and hotel here, killing at least 30 …

Washington – A US drone strike on a Shebaab training camp in Somalia over the weekend killed more than 150 fighters who were planning a “large-scale” attack, the Pentagon said on Monday. Pentagon spokesperson Captain Jeff Davis said the strike occurred sometime on Saturday (US time) on a camp called …

Tunis – At least 45 people were killed on Monday near Tunisia’s border with Libya in one of the deadliest clashes seen so far between Tunisian forces and extremist attackers, the government said. The fighting in the border town of Ben Guerdane in eastern Tunisia comes amid increasing concern that …