Regional security conference to kick off Monday

A conference tackling regional security and challenges besetting the Arab world will kick off at the Arab League headquarters on Monday.
The two-day conference, to be opened by Arab League chief Nabil el Araby, will bring together a number of Arab foreign ministers and representatives of the Arab civil society concerned with security and strategic studies.
The conference, organized by the Arab League in cooperation with the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, aims at studying security, political and military challenges facing the Arab world in order to come up with appropriate solutions.
Mohammed Ibrahim Shaker, head of the council, warned that growing extremism led to the spread of terrorism in the Arab communities in an unprecedented way.
Terrorism has become a big threat to regional security, human rights and freedom of expression, he added.
He said the conference will discuss working papers on practices of terrorist groups over the past few years and ways of fighting terrorism.