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British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Boris Johnson, in an interview with BBC Radio on Monday admitted that the removal of Libya’s strongman Colonel Muammar Gadhafi from power has been a tragedy for Libyans. According to the British Top Diplomat, the killing of Gadhafi in 2011 has plunged the North African oil-rich […]
The Moroccan origins of the perpetrators of the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks offered an easy scapegoat for pundits and media outlets in their attempts to ascribe terrorism to an external factor. By doing so, they further stigmatize a community of 800,000 Moroccan expatriates in Spain and fail to consider the deep causes of Europe’s residual […]
Morocco and Spain maintain close counterterrorism cooperation that includes the reform of the religious sphere and discourse as a key lever in fighting extremist ideologies, said the Spokesperson for the Moroccan government Mustapha El Khalfi. Speaking following the weekly government meeting held Thursday, El Khalfi said that Morocco spares no effort to bring help to […]
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visited Thursday Benghazi wherein he met Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, the Head of the Libyan National Army, as well as members of the local House of Representatives, challenging the government of Fayez Al-Serraj. This is the first visit by a UK government minister to Benghazi since 2011 and the first […]
In the wake of the terrorist attacks that shook Barcelona and Finland, several media outlets and self-proclaimed pundits took the easy way of putting the blame on Morocco, the country of origin of most of the radicalized youth, instead of lambasting the European laxism and intelligence failure. The desperate attempts at pushing the name of […]
Libyan Prime Minister Faiez Serraj, head of the UN-backed unity government in Tripoli, called for help from the EU to stem the flow of migrants, warning that some illegal migrants may pose a terrorist threat when they reach Europe. He warned that would-be terrorists were among the tens of thousands of people able to pass […]
The involvement of Moroccan radicalised youth in terrorist attacks in Europe stands in stark contrast to the vigilance of Moroccan security at home, which managed to thwart attacks by terrorist cells before they move into action. In an article on this dichotomy, the Financial Times deems that the increasing attacks by Moroccan terrorists in Europe […]
A team of Moroccan experts reached Mardrid to offer support to Spanish investigators in the wake of the terrorist attacks that hit Catalonia, Moroccan le360 news website reported. The contribution of Moroccan experts to Spain’s investigation efforts comes after the arrest of a second suspect in the northern Moroccan city of Nador following a similar […]
The involvement of Moroccans in the terrorist attacks that killed 14 in Barcelona will undoubtedly impact the Moroccan diaspora and institutions in the country after a series of anti-Muslim attacks targeted Morocco’s consulate in Tarragona (north east Spain), a mosque in Montblanc town, north of Tarragona, and another mosque in Madrid. Red painting was spilled […]
The EU, France, Spain and Germany have welcomed the appointment of Germany’s former President Horst Köhler as new Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Sahara. “The EU is looking forward to working with Kohler,” said an EU Spokesperson in a statement to Morocco’s news agency. “The EU continues to encourage all parties […]