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Spain and Morocco Arrest ISIS-Linked Terror Cell

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 13, 2016 | Middle East

Moroccan police, in cooperation with Spanish security forces, have arrested a terrorist network suspected of links to ISIS, the Spanish Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. The arrests of four Moroccan men on Wednesday followed two years of police investigations and...

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Abdelilah Benkirane, secretary-general of Morocco’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) speaks during a new conference at the party’s headquarters in Rabat, Morocco early October 8, 2016. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

Moderate Islamist PJD Party Wins Moroccan Election

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 8, 2016 | Middle East

Morocco’s moderate Islamist Party of Justice and Development has won parliamentary elections, according to official results released Saturday, despite frustration with its handling of the economy in its five years leading the government. The Interior Ministry...

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Moroccan lawmaker Ahmed Sakdi speaks to voters in the town of Tinghir, in southeastern Morocco, August 31, 2015. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

Moroccans Vote in Parliamentary Ballot

by Latifa Al-Arosni | Oct 7, 2016 | Middle East

Rabat- Moroccans went to the polls on Friday to elect a new parliament, which is made up of 395 seats. The elections are considered to be the second held since the Moroccan constitutional referendum in 2011. Around 16 million Moroccans are eligible to vote, with 30...

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A Moroccan woman casts her vote in the local elections at a polling station in the centre of the Moroccan capital Rabat on September 4, 2015. AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA

Moroccan Interior Minister: 100 Complaints on Electoral Campaign Breaches

by Latifa Al-Arosni | Oct 6, 2016 | Middle East

Rabat-Moroccan Interior Minister Mohamed Hasad has revealed that the public prosecution and the local administrations on campaigns of the legislative elections, scheduled for Friday, have received less than 100 complaints within the first ten days of the campaign....

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Secretary-General of the Istiqlal Party Hamid Chabat- AFP

Istiqlal Sec-Gen: We Are the Alternative

by Latifa Al-Arosni | Oct 5, 2016 | Interviews

Fez – Hamid Chabat, Secretary General of Istiqlal Party, described the current polarity between the opposing party Authenticity and Modernity and Justice and Development as fake and imposed. Chabat presented his party as the alternative of both parties. Chabat, Former...