Question: When did the country the Allies went to after the area under which WINEP bundles the countries of northwest Africa become an Ally in WWII?

world war ii (often abbreviated to wwii or ww2), also known as the second world war, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. the vast majority of the world's countries -- including all of the great powers -- eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the allies and the axis. it was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. in a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. world war ii was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of which were civilians in the soviet union and china. it included massacres, the genocide of the holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war. <SEP> The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) is a non-profit organization for research and advice on Middle Eastern policy. It regards its target countries as the Middle East but adopts the convention of calling them the Near East to be in conformance with the practices of the State Department. Its views are independent. Details can be found in Policy Focus #65. The WINEP bundles the countries of Northwest Africa together under "North Africa." <SEP> The participation of Italy in the Second World War was characterized by a complex framework of ideology, politics, and diplomacy, while its military actions were often heavily influenced by external factors. The imperial ambitions of the Fascist regime, which aspired to restore the Roman Empire in North Africa and the Mediterranean (the Mare Nostrum, or the Italian Empire), were partially met with the annexation of Albania and the Province of Ljubljana, and the occupation of British Somaliland and other territories, but ultimately collapsed after defeats in the East and North African campaigns. In July 1943, following the Allied invasion of Sicily, Benito Mussolini was arrested by order of King Victor Emmanuel III, provoking a civil war. Italy surrendered to the Allies at the end of the Italian Campaign. The northern half of the country was occupied by Germans with the fascists help and made a collaborationist puppet state (with more than 600,000 soldiers), while the south was governed by monarchist and liberal forces, which fought for the Allied cause as the Italian Co-Belligerent Army (at its height numbering more than 50,000 men), helped by circa 350,000 partisans of disparate political ideologies that operated all over Italy. <SEP> Information gleaned via British Ultra code - breaking intelligence proved critical to Allied success in North Africa. Victory for the Allies in this campaign immediately led to the Italian Campaign, which culminated in the downfall of the fascist government in Italy and the elimination of Germany's main European ally. <SEP> elias koteas as casey jones, a streetwise vigilante and former ice hockey player who becomes an ally of the turtles