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Arab leaders have agreed to form a joint military force, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on March 29 on the second day of a summit.
 
"The Arab leaders had decided to agree on the principle of a joint Arab military force," Sisi said in a speech at the summit held in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Bullet-pocked walls and overturned chairs mark the reception area of a prominent hotel in the Somali capital following an attack that killed at least 21, including six attackers Blood spattered utensils, bullet-pocked walls and overturned chairs mark the reception area of a prominent hotel in the Somali capital following an attack by Islamic extremists that killed at least 21, including

The town that inspired the name of Luke Skywalker's home planet in the movie "Star Wars" has become a backdrop in Tunisia's struggle to prevent the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from gaining a foothold there, CNN reported March 24.

Tourism ministry officials from Egypt and Bulgaria and both countries' ambassadors are due to hold a conference on promoting bilateral tourism cooperation from Wednesday to Friday in Egypt's capital Cairo.

Leaders from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed a cooperation deal on March 23 over a giant Ethiopian hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the river Nile, in a bid to ease tensions over regional water supplies.

Tunisia's national museum on Tuesday delayed a planned reopening after last week's attack on foreign tourists due to security concerns, its head of communications Hanene Srarfi told AFP.
      

A year after the formal announcement of the spread of Ebola by the WHO, at least 24,000 people were infected and more than 10,000 lost their lives.

Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi said on March 22 that a third gunman involved in an attack that killed 23 people, mostly foreign tourists, at a Tunis museum last week was on the run.
   

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has announced in a live TV interview that one of the attackers who killed 22 people in the Bardot Museum in Tunis this week is still on the run.

"He won't get far," the BBC quotes Essebsi as saying.

In an earlier interview with Paris Match, he had admitted that the attack had been made easier by security failures.

BELGRADE - Tunisian Ambassador in Belgrade Majid Hamlaoui said that Tunisia has implemented all possible security measures after the recent terrorist attack to prevent such events from happening ever again.