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Moroccan authorities continued their unabated crackdown on terrorists in 2017 with the busting of nine terror cells and the arrest of 189 extremists and 20 returning foreign fighters. These figures were revealed by the chief of Morocco’s counter-terrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), Abdelhak Khiame who said that the total number of […]
Moroccan security and intelligence services have been asked by their European counterparts to help in securing the New Year’s Eve celebrations against growing terror threats, according to Moroccan press reports. This is neither a first nor a surprise request, says Al Ahdath Al Maghribiya daily, noting that the European security agencies have issued a red […]
Morocco and France renewed commitment to reinforcing their security cooperation at a context marked by the threat of foreign terrorist fighters relocating from the Middle East to Europe and North Africa. The two countries laid emphasis on the need to beef up their bilateral counterterrorism cooperation in a joint statement issued at the end of […]
The US should look at Morocco’s comprehensive anti-terrorism strategy in its efforts to put an end to mass shootings, said the editorial board of the Christian Science Monitor (CSM) In the wake of 9/11 attacks, the US launched a counter-terrorism strategy that proved efficient abroad though” lone wolf killers inspired by radical Islam, such as […]
Morocco is set to build on its moderate school of Islam as a bulwark against extremism conducive to pre-empting radicalism at home and abroad. To that end, the country has extended the project of the Mohammed VI Institute for the Training of Imams to respond to the growing demand from a number of countries. Morocco’s […]
Morocco is putting forward its pre-emptive approach to avert the radicalization of Muslim youth in Europe mainly through ensuring an adequate training of Imams in accordance with the tolerant values of the Maliki school. In an interview with the Financial Times, Abdelhak Khiame, head of Morocco’s counter-terrorism agency, reiterated Morocco’s readiness to offer Imam training […]
Abdelhak Khiame, Head of Morocco’s counterterrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), said that the Kingdom is working on a new strategy to track Moroccans who become radicalized in Europe as part of beefed-up counterterrorism measures. In an interview with the Associated Press, Khiame noted that the crackdown on radicalized individuals abroad comes […]
Terrorism has no nationality or religion because terrorist groups bring together extremists hailing from all countries and violate all the Islamic precepts of moderation, peace and coexistence inherent to Islam, said the head of Morocco’s counterterrorism agency (BCIJ), Abdelhak Khiame. Khiame, in an interview with the Moroccan news website Le360, offered insight on a set […]
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 decision by Mauritanian authorities to seal off borders with Algeria as a military zone forbidden to civilians is the tree that hides the forest. The closing of the borders signals cracks in the Algerian-Mauritanian short-lived alliance. As Mauritania tilts towards its Sahel neighbors in their efforts to counter the terrorism scourge, it takes steps […]