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Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry last weekend said the country is working on removing Sudan from the United States’ list of terrorism sponsors. Riyadh made the announcement following a visit to Saudi Arabia by the head of Sudan’s transitional sovereign council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. The duo met with King Salman. In […]
The US authorities announced on Friday a $5 million reward for information leading to the location, the identification, the arrest or conviction of Adnan Abou Walid al-Sahraoui, an ex-member of the Algeria-backed polisario separatist front and current chief of ISIS in Great Sahara (ISIS-GS) that killed four Green Berets in a 2017 ambush in Niger. […]
The US commended Morocco’s leadership in preserving religious heritage sites, highlighting the history of the country in protecting religious minorities and promoting inter-faith dialogue, US Ambassador at large for International Religious Freedom Samuel Brownback said. “Morocco has done great work to preserve Jewish sites around the country,” he said in a speech at the opening […]
Protection of Morocco’s air and land borders will be enhanced further with the purchase of various Tow -2A missiles for $776 million and additional F-16 ammunition for $209 million. The State Department announced on Thursday its approval of the sale to Morocco of 2,401 Tow 2A, Radio Frequency (RF) Missiles (BGM-71-4B-RF); and twenty eight Tow […]
The dismissal of US national security adviser John Bolton by President Donald Trump was received as a good news for Morocco and a blow for the Polisario separatists and their mentor Algeria who nurtured a false hope to see the US adopt an anti-Moroccan stand on the Sahara issue. Bolton has on multiple times showed […]
President Donald Trump has received the resignation of his national security adviser John Bolton, a warmonger whose stands have leaned towards the separatist thesis in the Moroccan Sahara. Trump said in a tweet that he asked Bolton to resign because his services are no longer needed. “I disagree strongly with many of his suggestions as […]
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East and key official in the US administration so called “deal of the century” purported to settle the Israel-Palestine conflict has announced his resignation few days before the White House unveils its roadmap. President Trump himself on Twitter announced Jason Greenblatt’s resignation which will be […]
The United States has offered Morocco 100 light military vehicles. Fifty of them are already on the way to the kingdom, while fifty other trucks will join the fleet of vehicles of the Moroccan Army later this week, reveals FAR-Maroc, a website specializing in Defense matters. The offer of the tactical transportation vehicles is part […]
Gen. Stephen Townsend, Chief of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has described Morocco as a “strong” partner of the United States in counterterrorism, a major military ally, and as a regional leader in security. He made the remarks at a press briefing held Thursday in Rabat at the end of his visit to the North […]
U.S. army General, Stephen Townsend, commander of the U.S. Africa Command, met separately on Thursday in Rabat with Lt. General, the Inspector General of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces (FAR) Abdelfattah Louarak and with Minister Delegate for the National Defense Abdellatif Loudiy. A press release issued by the General Staff of FAR says the Moroccan-US […]