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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An Impending Assault on Idlib

06.26.2020 Ben Abboudi

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...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Iran

The Ongoing Fight to Contain Terrorism in Morocco

11.06.2019 Ben Abboudi

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...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Morocco

Down But Not Out: al-Qaeda and the Algerian Protest Movement

05.07.2019 Ben Abboudi

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...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Algeria