Young people in Tunisia face a very real risk of becoming radicalised. Many members of Les Scouts Tunisiens have friends and family who have left to fight for extremist causes, so the organisation wants to reverse the trend by promoting peace and tolerance
This time of year Mediterranean beaches are the destinations of choice for many European holidaymakers; it’s also the beginning of the busiest time of year for the people smugglers based in Libya and elsewhere along the North African coast. July to October is their peak season — during this time in 2016 around 103,000 refugees were crammed into unsafe boats, often in the dead of night, and cast off into the Mediterranean Sea.
(GPA) — An influential neoconservative US think-tank has released a publication declaring the post-9/11 War on Terror a complete failure. The report outlines a new era of US foreign policy for combating the global “terror” network by redefining the enemy as “Salafi-jihad.” But of course, real causes and solutions are completely ignored.
A new leaked memo from the White House indicates that the Trump administration wants to vastly change the way the US provides weapons the countries around the world.
Upon the completion of the first $110 billion of a $350 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, Trump spoke in Riyadh hailing the transaction as much for its financial benefits to America as for its supposed assistance to Saudi Arabia.
Tunisians demonstrating in Sfax on 24 December over the killing of Mohamed Zouari who was gunned dunned earlier this month near his home (Nadim Bouamoud/MEE)
TUNISIA (REPORT) — The assassination of a Tunisian aviation engineer outside his home near Sfax on 15 December has drawn fierce condemnation from the public and rekindled old tensions with the state of Israel, which many suspect of being behind the attack.
Al-Manar – December 25, 2016 Hundreds of people took to the streets of the Tunisian capital to protest against the repatriation of fellow citizens suspected of having links with various extremist groups. The protest took place after Germany announced that it would speed up the process of sending rejected Tunisian asylum seekers home, and Tunisian […]
Barbara McKenzie
21st Century Wire
Face it, NATO and its allies would have labelled Jesus Christ the Butcher of Damascus if this had suited their agenda of forced regime change in Syria.
Exclusive: Official Washington’s neocons hope they will finally get their wish to bomb Syria’s government, but the crisis of the Mideast – made worse by drastic climate change – won’t be solved by more war, explains Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall…Read more →
