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Morocco’s unique approach to defusing extremism highlighted at UN

Morocco’s unique approach to defusing terrorism and countering incitement to terrorist acts within the context of Islam was highlighted this week at the United Nations during a high-level meeting of the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). Some officials from the North African country, including Minister of religious affairs, Ahmed Toufik, made the trip to […]

Tips from Moroccan security services spared Germany a terrorist plot, led to nab German-Egyptian Islamist extremist

Thanks to tips and accurate information provided by Morocco’s General Directorate for the Surveillance of the National Territory (DGST) to the German intelligence services, a German-Egyptian national who was planning large-scale terrorist attacks in Germany, including a ramming attack, has been identified and arrested. The vigilance of Moroccan services have thus spared Germany a massacre. […]

Morocco-US: Morocco trouble-free country in 2016, US State Department

US State Department’s 2016 predictions for troubled zones in world points at the Middles East as the most dangerous zone while it categorizes Morocco as the safest place in the MENA region, reports say. The US State Department has classified Morocco among countries to enjoy peace in 2016 contrary to most countries in the North […]