Ben Abboudi
Ben Abboudi is the Middle East and North Africa Threat Analyst at Healix International. He has lived and studied in the Middle East and has gained expertise in his professional career in security, political and operational risks affecting countries in the MENA region. Ben has experience working at thinks tanks covering terrorist activity across the UK and Middle East.
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Articles by Ben Abboudi
An Impending Assault on Idlib
While the world has been distracted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province remains volatile. The region, which has seen a period of relative calm, is...
The Ongoing Fight to Contain Terrorism in Morocco
The latent threat Islamic State (IS) poses to Morocco was again highlighted by recent large-scale counter-terror operations in Morocco. The country’s internal security forces, the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation...
Down But Not Out: al-Qaeda and the Algerian Protest Movement
When President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s decision to run for a fifth term as president sparked large-scale countrywide demonstrations, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) saw an opportunity to exploit the sudden...