Shield and Alert: Maghreb Bound

Media sources say Moroccan soldiers have recently undergone training in China on the use of new generation drones, the Wing Loong II. The information has not been confirmed by any official source and may be just information meant to confuse or a scare tactic as...

A key critic of Tunisian President Kais Saied called in for questioning over allegations of conspiracy against the state accused the president Friday of "criminalising" all opposition. Saied won a landslide victory in a 2019 presidential election but assumed sweeping...

Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar called Friday for a unified government of technocrats to organise long-delayed elections, in place of the rival administrations currently vying for control. Libya has been torn by more than a decade of stop-start conflict since...

A Moroccan court on Wednesday sentenced a leader of the kingdom's principal Islamist movement, which rejects the king's authority over religion, to a year in prison for "sexual harassment", an official in the movement said. Al Adl Wal Ihsane (Justice and Dignity)...