The frenzy in western media over the Moroccan origins of the hostage taker in a French supermarket Friday is indicative of a western penchant to seek scapegoats for their failed deradicalization and integration policies. This tendency to blame the domestic radicalization to an external factor such as the “Moroccan origin” denotes a striking failure to […]
Morocco’s Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) dismantled, Thursday morning, an ISIS-linked terror cell in the eastern city of Oujda made up of four extremists. The operation was made possible thanks to collaboration with Morocco’s DGST and US Intelligence services, the BCIJ announces in a statement. This security operation is part of the ongoing […]
Libya’s central bank chief Sadiq al-Kabir said he and other senior bank employees had to flee the country to protect their lives from militias. Few days ago, the bank suspended activity after a senior official was kidnapped by militias. Disrupted central bank activity, which controls billions of hydrocarbons money, has forced oil production to shutdown […]
