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Jerusalem, June 22, 2020 - Amnesty International said Monday that software developed by Israeli security firm NSO Group was used to attack a Moroccan journalist, the latest in a series of allegations against the company. The Israeli firm told AFP that it was "deeply...

Algiers, June 19, 2020 (By Amal Belalloufi, with Philippe Agret in Tunis) - Algeria has intensified a crackdown on an anti-government protest movement, targeting social media users in a bid to stop demonstrations resuming once coronavirus restrictions end. Weekly...

By Giorgio Cafiero (@GulfStateAnalyt) and Aicha El Alaoui:  Over the past ten years, Gulf states—chiefly Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—have at times ambitiously, boldly, and decisively intervened in the Maghreb. Since the Arab Spring...

Rome, June 12, 2020 (By Ljubomir Milasin) - Italy has given a green light to the sale of two warships to Egypt, news media reported on Friday, despite tense relations between the two countries over the unresolved 2016 murder of an Italian student in Cairo. The $1.2...