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King Mohammed VI has appointed Boughaleb El Attar as Morocco’s first ambassador to Cuba in decades, a bold diplomatic move showing the North African kingdom’s determination to reach out to countries of all political hues in the new world order. The newly appointed Moroccan envoy to Havana, 70, excels in Spanish literature and is an […]
US Senate member and chairman of the foreign relations committee has told the State Department that the Congress will stand in the way of all arms deals with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) until peace returns among these US allies. US allies in the Gulf have been divided into two groups; one side […]
Cutting US military aid to Tunisia is a “misguided and dangerous” decision representing a stark departure with the US President’s plan to “demolish and destroy” the Islamic State (ISIS), said Sarah Yerkes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in an opinion piece on The Hill. The article criticizes Trump’s budget blueprint released on May […]
The US Department of State has renewed its caution to travelers heading to Algeria due to the threat of terrorist attacks and kidnappings. “While violence has reduced significantly in recent years, terrorist groups remain active in some parts of the country,” the Department said on its website. Despite heavy police presence in major cities, “the […]
The Brazilian Congress approved a motion calling on their government to support the efforts undertaken by Morocco to find a political and mutually acceptable solution to the artificial dispute over the Sahara. The motion, sent to Brazil’s foreign minister Aloysio Nunes, also commends the autonomy initiative which was submitted by Morocco in April 2007 and […]
The US has expressed reservations over the French move to garner support at the UN Security council for the adoption of a resolution mandating a force by West African states to combat terrorism and trafficking in the Sahel. The US voiced its concerns regarding the UN financial backing for the Sahel force after France has […]
Another cargo of five US-made M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks arrived in the port of Casablanca on Wednesday (May 7), reported Far-Morocco, a website specialized in armaments and defense. This cargo and a similar delivery in July 2016 are part of an order of 250 of this type of third generation battle tanks, as the […]
The US President Tuesday shocked his own administration after he took the Saudi side in the crisis involving Qatar and several of its neighbors. Donald Trump boasted via several tweets that the speech he delivered two weeks ago in Riyadh “was already paying off” adding that Qatar has been singled out as terrorism supporter. “So […]
The US embassy in Cairo Monday instructed its staff to avoid religious sites outside Cairo as attacks against Coptic Christians multiply. The embassy said on its website that risk for possible additional attacks is still high. “Terrorists have attacked targets associated with the Christian community in Egypt. Incidents have occurred in both urban and isolated […]
US Secretary of Defense Tuesday told US CBS that Iran sponsored an assassination attempt on his friend and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir in 2011 when he was Saudi ambassador to Washington James Mattis told CBS’s Face the Nation that Iran directed two assassins to plant explosives to target Al-Jubeir while he was in Washington. […]