Morocco

Algeria is preparing a list of some 150 Arab and foreign journalists which it is planning to ban from entry into the country due to their "unethical" coverage of...

Seven people, including officials from the Moroccan Fisheries Authority and the Interior Ministry, were jailed yesterday after being found guilty of manslaughter in the case of the Moroccan fishmonger...

The new Moroccan government's programme does not reflect the needs of the country's Berber population, a leading Berber activist said yesterday. Speaking to Quds Press, Ahmed Aldagharni said: "The...

Moroccan human rights activist Ali Anzola has called on authorities to allow Syrian refugees stranded on the border with Algeria into the country. In an exclusive interview with Quds...

We cannot begin to understand the disintegration and fragmentation plaguing the Arab region without looking at the failures of the nation states that were established on the ruins of...

A woman has died at a stampede at one of the entrance gates of the Bab Sebta crossing between Morocco and the Spanish enclave in the north of the...

Algeria has recalled the Moroccan ambassador to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to give "a categorical rejection" of the "serious accusations" formulated by Moroccan authorities over the weekend. Morocco...

A Moroccan minister and leading figure within the Justice and Development Party (JDP), Mustafa Al-Rameid, denied yesterday factional divisions due to the formation of the new coalition government led...

Morocco yesterday summoned the Algerian ambassador to Rabat to express its worry about Algeria's attempt to expel 55 Syrian who "illegally" entered the country, the Safa news agency reported....

Morocco has summoned Algeria's ambassador to express concern after 54 Syrians attempted to "illegally enter" the country from Algeria, the ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement on...

The Moroccan ministry of education has denied claims that it has suspended special provisions in examinations for students with learning disabilities. The accusation was made by the National Union...

Anonymous sources in Morocco have accused the Polisario Front Morocco accuses Polisario of increasing tension on the borderof increasing tension in the border area of Guerguerate by constructing new...

Abdellah Benkirane, Secretary-general of Morocco's Justice and Development Party (JDP) has stressed that his party will not back down from what he described as "the course of reform". Benkirane,...

Moroccan authorities have reportedly dismantled a "terrorist cell" used to recruit volunteers for Daesh, officials confirmed yesterday. Seven members from the cell were arrested by authorities for recruiting and sending...

Secretary-General of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) and former Moroccan Prime Minister, Abdelilah Benkirane, said that although the political status of his party is not good it has...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for new talks between Morocco and the Polisario Front over the issue of the Western Sahara, noting that the talks should...

A video posted online last month showed a young man running towards the king's motorcade.

In reaction to the unexpected 7 October elections shock, the deep state apparently has engaged fervently in reshaping its long term tactics to regain monopoly over relations with political...

When the royal palace in Morocco appointed the government of Abbas al-Fassi in 2007, on a fateful night in a mosque in the city of Fez, I described the...

After six months of post-election deadlock, Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Wednesday named a new cabinet led by the main Islamist party, which lost a key ministry after protracted...

 British Ambassador to Libya, Peter Millett, and the German Ambassador to Libya, Christian Buck, on Monday affirmed their countries' support to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA), in an...

The separatist Polisario Front is willing to cooperate with the United Nations to restart the peace process in the Sahara and overcome the tensions in the Guergarat buffer zone,...

Passengers travelling directly to the United Kingdom from the Kuwait International Airport will be subjected to "further security checks", British Ambassador to Kuwait, Matthew Lodge, announced. In an official...

American has expressed its support for the Tunisian initiative and efforts to "pursue dialogue and consensus" among Libyan parties to resolve the crisis, the foreign ministry said yesterday. In...

Moroccan authorities have fired a provincial governor following days of angry protestors clashing with police, leaving dozens of officers injured, an interior ministry source told AFP. Governor Mohammad Zhar...

Despite high popularity and a large election win after a relatively successful governmental mandate, the Justice and Development Party (PJD) is facing its most intriguing situation post-2011. Abdelilah Benkirane's...

Trump backs off Muslim Brotherhood's designation as 'terror' organisation Sources in the White House say the Trump administration has backed down on the plan to designate the Muslim Brotherhood...

Fourteen people have been arrested following an attack on a police residence over the weekend by demonstrators in Al Hoceima in northern Morocco, according to several media reports. "A...

Even before last October's legislative elections it was clear that the real authority in Morocco, which is basically the royal palace and its surroundings, does not want Islamists to...

Moroccan Prime Minster Saad Eddine El Othmani said on Saturday he had agreed to form a coalition government with five other parties, breaking nearly six months of post-election deadlock....

The Peace and Security Council of the African Union has called for direct dialogue between Morocco and the Polisario Front with regard to the issue of the Western Sahara,...

King Abdullah II of Jordan visits the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art with King Mohammed VI of Morocco during his visit in Rabat