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The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is developing networks across North Africa that seek to attack the continent, Europe, and the United States while it loses control of its so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, a top U.S. State Department counterterrorism official warned lawmakers.

WASHINGTON, DC – Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman and retired General Charles Wall laid out their visions for the “the way forward” regarding the United States’ policy on Iran during a panel discussion at the National Press Club on Tuesday.

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In the last six weeks, Tunisia has become a focus for mass migration as authorities worry that now the Libyan route has been all but closed, many migrants are looking to get to Europe from the Tunisian coast.

Tunisia has abolished a decades-old ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims, the presidency said Thursday.

Some denounce it as a violation of Islamic law, others embrace it as revolutionary: An initiative by Tunisia’s president to make inheritance and marriage rules fairer to women is reverberating around the Muslim world, and risks dividing his country.

TEL AVIV — A draft bill presented to Tunisian parliament that would give women and men equality with regard to inheritance laws and allow Muslim Tunisian women to marry non-Muslim men has drawn anger from the conservative circles in the country and the wider Arab world.

TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian court has banned the US film “Wonder Woman” which stars Israeli actress Gal Gadot, more than a month after it had been scheduled to open at cinemas in the Arab state, a legal source said Wednesday.

Two former Guantánamo Bay detainees from Tunisia have reportedly described their homeland as being worse than the detention center, saying they would prefer to go back.

The man who allegedly attacked a police lieutenant with a knife at the Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, on Wednesday is 49-year-old Amor Ftouhi of Montreal, Canada.

TEL AVIV – The decision by a movie theater in the Palestinian Authority not to screen the blockbuster “Wonder Woman” movie due to the casting of Israel actress Gal Gadot suggests “weakness and fear,” a senior IDF official said on Sunday.

TEL AVIV – Jordan has banned a screening of “Wonder Woman” because its Israeli lead actress, Gal Gadot, served in the IDF, and has instructed theaters nationwide not to screen the movie until an official government decision has been made.

A decision by the Tunisian government to begin enforcing the religious obligation to fast on Ramadan by punishing those who don’t respect it publicly with jail time has ignited a heated debate on social media platforms.

Italian police played down terror concerns Friday after a “radicalised” man stabbed two soldiers and a police officer with a kitchen knife in Milan railway station, but have now launched a terror inquiry after more details about the suspect’s possible

DJERBA, Tunisia — An annual Jewish pilgrimage to Africa’s oldest synagogue on Tunisia’s Djerba island began on Friday under tight security but in a festive mood.

MILAN (AP) – Italy has expelled a 36-year-old Tunisian who had maintained contacts with the Berlin Christmas market attacker. The Interior Ministry said Saturday that the Tunisian was identified after the attacker, Anis Amri, was shot to death near Milan

Israel warned its citizens on Wednesday against visiting Tunisia, where Jewish pilgrims will celebrate a religious festival later this month, citing the threat of jihadist attack.

A British DJ has been sentenced to a year in jail in Tunisia for “offending public morality” after he played a dance music remix of the Muslim call to prayer in a nightclub.

On Friday, two European DJs were called into Tunisia’s Hammamet to host a dance party for the Orbit Festival. DJ “Dax J” played a track that included the Muslim call to prayer for the partygoers. This artistic choice was not well-received by local authorities.

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ROME (AP) – A Tunisian man has been expelled from Italy for alleged links to the suspected Berlin Christmas marketplace truck attacker. The Italian interior ministry said Sunday that the man was put on a flight to Tunis. It didn’t

BERLIN (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel starts a two-day trip to Egypt and Tunisia on Thursday, part of her push to limit migrant flows to Europe through North Africa, especially chaos-torn Libya.

LONDON (AP) — The Tunisian police response to a deadly gun attack on a popular beach resort was “at best shambolic, at worst cowardly,” a British judge said Tuesday as he ruled that 30 British tourists had been unlawfully killed by an extremist gunman.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has suggested that current Twitter trends are similar to those during the Arab Spring, where social media aided the revolutionary uprisings that led to the overthrow of multiple governments and civil wars across the Middle East.

Tunisia’s prime minister on Tuesday rejected German claims that his country has been blocking the return of rejected asylum seekers including the key suspect in the Berlin attack, hours ahead of talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Hamas has issued new safety guidelines to its operatives around the world, following the assassination of a Tunisian engineer said to have led Hamas’s drone program — an incident the Palestinian terror group has blamed on Israel.

Tunisia’s Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Thursday said all jihadists returning from foreign battlefields would be immediately arrested and judged according to the country’s counter-terrorism law.

More than 45 per cent of young Tunisians want to migrate illegally to Europe according to a new study, and an estimated 35,000 have already done so in the last few years.

The assassination of Hamas drone engineer Mohammed Alzoari in Tunisia earlier this month — widely attributed to Mossad agents — was spurred by his work to develop deadly unmanned seacraft with which the terrorist organization planned to blow up Israel’s offshore gas rigs, the Hebrew daily Yediot Aharonot reported on Monday.

Hundreds of protestors have gathered outside the Tunisian Parliament to demand that the government prevent jihadists who have fought overseas from returning to the country. According to organisers, 1,500 people attended the event, waving placards reading “Daesh’s [Islamic State’s] place

The views in this World View article are those of the author, John Xenakis, based on Generational Dynamics analyses of historic and current events, and do not necessarily represent the views of Algora Publishing.

The Tunisian public opinion has been in turmoil after an Israeli TV reporter visited the country in a bid to trace the origins of Muhamad Alzawari, Hamas’ chief drone engineer who was assassinated over the weekend.

TEL AVIV – Hamas said the Mossad was behind Thursday’s killing of Mohammed Al-Zoari, a Tunisian aviation engineer who developed unmanned drones for the terror group, and vowed revenge.

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) has concluded that the 2011 “Arab Spring” uprisings cost the affected countries a total of $614 billion, amounting to 6% of their combined Gross Domestic Product.

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Tunisian social media has been abuzz with pictures of a 15-year-old groom and his 12-year-old bride from a remote region in the country.