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British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon (C) leaves the Cabinet Office in central London, on June 29, 2015, after attending a security meeting on the mass shooting in Tunisia that killed at least 38 people including many British tourists. (AFP Photo/Niklas Halle’n)
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Smoke rises in Egypt’s North Sinai as seen from the border from the southern Gaza Strip with Egypt, on July 1, 2015. (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
Egypt launches airstrikes against ISIS affiliate in Sinai
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt launched a series of airstrikes against militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in North Sinai on Wednesday, after over 50 people were killed in coordinated attacks in the province earlier in the day. The army...Caption:
Yemeni volunteer fighters loyal to President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi comb an area at the frontline of their fighting against Houthi fighters in Yemen’s southern city of Aden on June 17, 2015. (Reuters/Stringer)
Houthi rockets kill dozens in south Yemen
Aden and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Dozens of Yemenis have been killed and injured by rockets fired by Houthi rebels in a residential area in the southern city of Aden, health officials say. The Houthis fired rockets at a residential area and a market in Aden before dawn...Caption:
Tunisian policemen keep watch on the beach where tourists were shot dead in front of the Hotel Imperial Marhaba in Sousse, Tunisia, on July 1, 2015. (EPA/Mohamed Messara)
Tunisia: Report finds shortcomings in security over Sousse attack
Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—An initial report by authorities in Tunisia into last week’s attack at a tourist resort in the coastal city of Sousse has found that both the country’s security services and the hotel did not do enough to stop the massacre. Thirty-nine people,...Caption:
People attend a protest to condemn an attack by a gunman at the beach of the Imperial Marhabada hotel in Sousse, Tunisia, June 27, 2015. Tour companies were evacuating thousands of foreign holidaymakers from Tunisia on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed 39 people as they lounged at the beach in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Tunisia’s Prime Minister Habib Essid said most of the dead were British, and its health ministry said eight Britons, a German, a Belgian and an Irish citizen were among the casualties of the attack at a hotel in the resort town of Sousse. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra