Eurasia Press & News

Libya’s internationally recognised government denied last Thursday reports that French special forces had been fighting the Islamic State group in the troubled country, after the rival administration in Tripoli confirmed them. The recognised government “didn’t allow and won’t allow any foreign forces to enter Libyan territories”, spokesperson Hatem el-Ouraybi told …

Lagos – Nigerian troops have rescued 195 Boko Haram hostages and killed a number of “terrorists” in raids on villages across the restive northeast, the army said on Thursday. Troops descended on towns suspected to be controlled by the Islamist group in the state of Borno and “rescued 195 persons …

A British military training team had arrived in Tunisia last February to provide practical and theoretical courses in border protection, spokesman for the National Defence Ministry Lieutenant-Colonel Belhassen Oueslati said on Tuesday. In a statement to TAP, he said a first session of a training programme for the Tunisian Army …

Tunisia’s National Guard and Army units killed four suspected terrorists during a preemptive security operation Monday, announced Tunisia’s Interior Ministry Tuesday. “Anti-terrorist National Guard units took down four suspected terrorists Monday in the Ain Jaffel region, close to the Sidi Bouzid mountains,” said the Interior Ministry spokesperson, Yasser

he Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have completed the training of 10 military officers from Mali and are set to expand the program further with a new agreement getting the green light from Parliament. According to the minutes from a meeting of the Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Commission on Wednesday, Turkish …

Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ramtane Lamamra on Monday held phone talks with Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integration and International Cooperation Abdoulaye Diop, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Security sources in Egypt say nearly two dozen militants have been killed in an airstrike against a militant base in the country’s restive Sinai Peninsula. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the aircraft targeted a training camp for members of the Velayat Sinai militant group south of the …

MOGADISHU- The African Union (AU) has condemned Monday the double attack perpetrated by the terrorist group Al-Shabaab in the town of Baidoa, south of Somalia, Sunday evening. The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia, Francisco Caetano Madeira has strongly condemned the terror attacks, which …

Algeria will continue to provide its support for a “just and definitive” settlement of the conflict in Western Sahara through a “free and regular” self-determination referendum, said Tuesday in Geneva (Switzerland) the Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ramtane Lamamra.

Thirteen civilians were killed in the night from Sunday to Monday by suspected Ugandan rebels in the Beni territory in eastern DRC, said the Congolese army. “We have just discovered a total of thirteen bodies killed with knives, including four women,” said Lt. Mak Hazukay, spokesman of the Armed Forces …