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The Belgian parliament Thursday passed a bill endorsing security cooperation between Belgium and Morocco in the wake of Brussels attacks after it surfaced that Morocco helped Belgian authorities foil an IS attack against nuclear facilities in the country planned part of the Brussels terror acts. The bill also came in the wake of an agreement […]
Spanish security forces early Tuesday arrested a Moroccan man on the island of Mollora. The man is accused of having links with terrorist organizations. Spanish authorities did not disclose the name of the suspect accused of coordinating possible terror attacks in Spain and across Europe. A statement by the Interior Ministry also accused the man […]
The scandalous statements of Mohamed Abbadi, Secretary General of the banned Al Adl wal Ihssan movement on an “Islamic state” referring to the ideology of the terrorist ISIS group have triggered a strong wave of indignation. The controversy grew after a video was circulated showing Abbadi calling for the establishment of “a caliphate” and threatening […]
The role played, or rather not played, by NATO coalition forces in Libya in the aftermath of the 2011 toppling of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi has been termed by US President Barack Obama as his biggest mistake during his presidential tenure because of the failure to plan for the post-Gadhafi era. “Probably failing to plan […]
The European court has cancelled its former verdict on farm deal with Morocco in the appeal lodged by the European Union. This new ruling deals a hard blow to the Polisario separatists, backed by Algerian lobbyists who tirelessly seek to undermine Moroccan-European relations. During her latest trip to Morocco, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini […]
IS militants could assault UK and Europe with lethal gas as the group is now able to make chemical and biological weapons, head of Morocco’s counter-terrorism department told UK Sun magazine early this week. Speaking from his office at Morocco’s Bureau Central d’Investigations Judiciares (BCIJ) also dubbed Morocco’s FBI, Abdelhak Khiame told The Sun that […]
The World Bank Group has worked out a new ambitious strategy to deal with the economic and political fallout of the conflicts rocking the region of North Africa and the Middle East. The goal is to lay the foundations for long-term peace and stability. With the support of the United Nations and the Islamic Development, […]
King Mohammed VI’s long-awaited official visit to Russia will take place as of March 13. The announcement was made Friday by the Ministry of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery, which said in a communiqué that during the visit, the king will hold official talks with President Vladimir Putin and that the two leaders will […]
Siemens is planning to build a wind turbine rotor blade facility in northern Morocco, close to Tangier Med port, linked to Europe, the Middle East and the rest of Africa. The construction of the onshore plant, first of its kind in the North African country, is expected to start as early as this spring, and […]
Sky News Wednesday announced it got hold of an enormous and significant cache of intelligence made of tens of thousands of documents containing the names and details of 22,000 IS fighters. The haul of the documents according to the British media was handed over by a disillusioned former member who had stolen the documents on […]