UN Resoundingly Rejects Trump’s Declaration of Jerusalem Capital of Israel

A decisive vote in the UN General Assembly has further isolated the US in the international community. The vote of 128 against nine, with 35 abstentions and 21 countries not voting, has been received in Washington as a stinging rebuke for Trump and a rejection of his unilateral declaration of Jerusalem as a capital of […]

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 […]

BCIJ dismantles another ISIS-affiliated terrorist cell in Morocco

The Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) arrested on Monday three members of an ISIS-linked terror cell in the cities of Errachidia and Tinghir who were planning to carry out terrorist schemes.   Preliminary investigations revealed that the three extremists, aged between 26 and 28, have adopted ISIS extremist rhetoric and sought to recruit other […]