Algerian troops kill 6 Islamist militants near Tunisia border – ministry‏

ALGIERS, March 21 (Reuters) – Algerian troops killed six armed Islamist fighters in the country’s southeast near the Tunisian border, and captured arms and munitions, the ministry of defence said on Monday.... Read more »

The Guardian view on Libya: yet another messy frontier in the war on Isil‏

Five years after the start of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is fast becoming the new frontier of the western war against Islamic State. This turn of events has now become... Read more »

Le Monde- French special forces carrying on « secret war » in Libya

France’s crack troops and intelligence commandos are waging covert operations against Islamic State’s fighters in Libya jointly with counterparts from the United States and Britain, the French daily Le Monde reported on... Read more »

Algeria aims to unlock its energy dilemma with a huge renewable energy scheme‏

Algeria will have to wrestle with a dilemma in the next  few years : cutting hydrocarbon sales abroad that account for 96 percent of the total of its exports or wean its local... Read more »

Libya’s presidential council announces revised unity government

One of the council’s members, Fathi al-Majbari, said in a televised statement that the list of 13 ministers and five ministers of state had been sent to Libya’s eastern parliament for approval.... Read more »

Libya’s recognised parliament dismisses U.N.-backed unity government‏

Maghreb news- Lamine Ghanmi Libya’s internationally recognised parliament voted on Monday to reject a unity government proposed under a U.N.-backed plan to resolve the country’s political strife and violence between rival militias.... Read more »

EU displays support for Libya’s unity government as Libyans mourn dead‏

Maghreb News-The European Union urged Libya’s political factions rally behind a unity government on Friday as Libyans mourned the victims from the deadliest attack in five years claimed by the Islamic State... Read more »

Explosion hits state security bus in Tunis, 11 dead

TUNIS-An explosion has hit Tuesday in Mohamed V Avenue a bus carrying presidential guards in Tunis, at the former premises of the dissolved RCD party, TAP agency reported quoting the Tunisian Ministry... Read more »

Iranian Minister of Energy underlines importance of Algeria’s role in GECF

  TEHRAN (Iran)- Iranian Minister of Energy Hamid Tchit-Tchian underlined Sunday, in Teheran, the importance of Algeria’s role in the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), taking into account “its international experience” gained... Read more »

Sahrawi President welcomes Algeria’s “unfailing, unqualified” support to Sahrawi cause

ALGIERS- Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz hailed Sunday, in Algiers, Algeria’s “unfailing and unqualified” support to the Sahrawi cause in accordance with the United Nations’ resolutions and international law. “We would like to... Read more »