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Morocco’s flag carrier, Royal Air Maroc, said that it maintains its five weekly flights to Doha although it cancelled flights transiting through Doha Airport to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt. The announcement was made on the backdrop of an unfolding crisis after several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt cut […]
Mauritania has joined its voice to the Arab nations that cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar, which they accuse of supporting terrorism and sidelining with Iran. “The state of Qatar has linked its policies … in support of terrorist organizations and the propagation of extremist ideas,” the Mauritanian news agency said relaying a statement of […]
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 […]
Morocco said that it is following the developments in the rift between Qatar and six Arab countries -Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, and Yemen— which severed their relations with Qatar on Monday over its alleged support of terrorism. “Morocco is closely following the unfolding of events in the Gulf countries and […]
Qatar airways has announced it is canceling all its flights to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt as of Tuesday after these countries along with Saudi Arabia banned Qatari aircrafts from using their air spaces. The airline has been caught in the diplomatic row between Qatar and its neighbors, which accuse the gas-rich […]
By the end of 2016, 204 Jihadists left the Spanish-occupied cities of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco to join the ranks of the Islamic State (Daesh) in Irak and Syria, warns a report of the Spanish intelligence services. Relayed by the Moroccan media, the report dealing with the issue of foreign fighters from the […]
Rayan Mashaal, aka Baraa Kadek, identified as the creator of Amaq; a news outlet aligned with the Islamic State group (IS) was killed Monday in the Syrian town of Mayadeen controlled by the terror group, reports say. Amaq created in 2014 has aligned itself with the terror group and publishes propaganda videos and photos of […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has stressed that reaching a peace agreement with Palestine would be determined by security concerns to ensure Israel’s safety. He told Army Radio that in any peace agreement with the Palestinians, “we will have to maintain military control of all the territory west of the Jordan River.” Netanyahu claimed […]
Japan sees in Morocco a partner that can facilitate its cooperation efforts in Africa. An agreement was signed in this regards between the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Morocco’s Equipment and Transport Ministry to develop human resources in the field of transport in African countries. Under the agreement, Japan and Morocco will cooperate through […]
The US State Department has denounced the brutality of the security personnel accompanying the Turkish President after they roughed anti-Erdogan protesters Tuesday in Washington. Footages of a brawl between a small group of protesters believed to be pro-Kurdish and some men dressed in black suits, identified as Erdogan’s security agents, went viral on social media. […]