• On 10 October 2016, Bankirane was reappointed after the Islamist party won parliamentary elections. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moroccans head to the polls Wednesday for parliamentary and local elections that will determine the fate of the Islamist party that has ruled since the Arab Spring uprisings. (africanews.com)
  • Politics as a purely male domain: Following parliamentary elections in Morocco, the lack of a quota for women in the distribution of ministerial posts has resulted in severe political under-representation. (qantara.de)
  • After Islamist parties won three elections in a row, columnists and pundits in the West threw up their hands in horror. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The moderate Islamist PJD party, which had been the largest in the previous two elections and whose leader had served as prime minister since 2011, crashed to a heavy defeat and said it would join the opposition together with leftist parties. (saltwire.com)
  • The Constitution's power split provides a check against Islamists, if they were to win elections. (globalmediaholding.ma)
  • Bennett will stay on as the alternate prime minister until the elections. (jstreet.org)
  • Alone among the countries that experienced the pro-democracy uprisings of the Arab Spring, the transition in Tunisia has remained on track but it has still been buffeted by the turmoil in the region, which brought down the Islamists that first won elections after the revolution. (ksl.com)
  • Myanmar's military leader declared himself prime minister and said he would lead the country under a state of emergency until elections are held in 2023. (rendon.com)
  • Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Thursday named a new government, led by billionaire tycoon Aziz Akhannouch whose National Rally of Independents (RNI) trounced incumbent Islamists in elections last month. (newarab.com)
  • In power for ten years, Morocco's Justice and Party Development, the first Islamist movement to win an election in the region, was projected by many to shed some votes in September's parliamentary ballot. (gfmag.com)
  • PJD politician Bassima Hakkaoui is the only woman to hold a ministerial post in Morocco's new, Islamist-dominated government. (qantara.de)
  • Battling corruption, which plagues Morocco's legal system , is a particular focus of Islamist parties, so the PJD will soon have to prove how hard it will push against the status quo to effect change. (eurasiareview.com)
  • RABAT (Reuters) -Morocco's designated prime minister, Aziz Akhannouch, said on Wednesday the three biggest winners of this month's parliamentary election, the liberal RNI and PAM parties and the conservative Istiqlal, had agreed to form a new cabinet. (saltwire.com)
  • VoA News: Morocco's interior minister says the bomb that killed 16 people in a historic square in Marrakech appears to have been the work of al-Qaida. (typepad.com)
  • France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls (R) and Morocco's Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs Ahmed Toufiq attend with other guests the official inauguration of Grand Mosque in Strasbourg, September 27, 2012. (world.edu)
  • said Abouchitae Moussaif, the national secretary of Morocco's Al Adl Wal Ihsane, a banned but tolerated Islamist association that has long supported the Palestinian cause. (kxan.com)
  • He requested the support of the USG for Morocco's efforts on the Western Sahara, which he called the "lifeblood" of Morocco. (jcvignoli.com)
  • Morocco's Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, pictured on February 11, 2022 in the French city of Brest. (modernghana.com)
  • Morocco's Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, a billionaire petrol baron, is facing a growing online campaign demanding he step down as fuel prices -- and energy firms' profits -- surge. (modernghana.com)
  • On 10 September 2021, Aziz Akhannouch was appointed 17th Prime Minister of Morocco by King Mohammed VI. (wikipedia.org)
  • Politics of Morocco El Attaq, Amal (2021-10-15). (wikipedia.org)
  • In the fall of 2021, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz traveled to Morocco within less than three months. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • People gather to stage a demonstration in support of Palestinians and to protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip, on 15 May 2021 in Rabat, Morocco. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • Former Minister of Defense Moshe "Boogie" Ya'alon attends a conference at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, on June 17, 2021. (worldisraelnews.com)
  • Now, though, nearly one thousand French citizens are believed to have traveled to Syria to join other Islamist militants there, and heavily armed jihadists pledging allegiance to ISIS and al-Qaeda in Yemen have massacred seventeen people in Paris. (nybooks.com)
  • Islamist militants reportedly kidnapped around 50 women searching for food in Burkina Faso's northern province of Soum, a hotbed of jihadist activity, on January 12 and 13. (newsafricanow.com)
  • Throughout the 1990s, a bloody civil war raged between Islamist militants and the autocratic Algerian government. (ips-dc.org)
  • First elected in 2011, the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) hopes to win a third term this year, having clung on to power at the head of coalitions for the whole intervening decade. (africanews.com)
  • The present-day Tunisian government is a coalition between the moderate Islamist movement Ennadha and the Nidha Tounes center-right political movement built by one-time supporters of Zine El Abidine, the dictator overthrown in 2010 in the first act of the Arab Spring. (stljewishlight.org)
  • As the economic problems mounted and radical extremists began assassinating politicians in 2013, the moderate Islamist Ennahda (Renaissance) party and its ally Marzouki lost popularity. (ksl.com)
  • The RNI won 102 of parliament's 395 seats in the September 8 polls, sweeping away the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) which had headed the governing coalition for a decade but took just 13 seats. (newarab.com)
  • Western nations at 'Friends of Syria' talks in Marrakech, Morocco rallied around a new opposition National Coalition formed last month under moderate Islamist cleric Mouaz Alkhatib. (newsmax.com)
  • After an extraordinary turnout of more than 90 percent of registered voters, the previously banned Islamist party Ennahda took 41 percent of the total, with the secular Congress for the Republic coming in a distant second at 14 percent and the leftist Ettakatol party in third place. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Essebsi's party was largely formed in opposition to Ennahda and an actual coalition with the Islamists would be a hard sell among its members, but the door has been left open for some kind of informal cooperation. (ksl.com)
  • Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party, postponed a council meeting after senior members called for his resignation over his handling of the political crisis. (rendon.com)
  • Akhannouch was named to head the government in September after his National Rally of Independents (RNI) thrashed the long-ruling Islamists in a parliamentary election. (modernghana.com)
  • On 29 November 2011, Abdelilah Benkirane was appointed 15th Prime Minister of Morocco by King Mohammed VI. (wikipedia.org)
  • Islamist leader Abdelilah Benkirane named Morocco PM". BBC News. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Moroccan king, who instituted political reforms to stave off Arab Spring protests, has chosen PJD leader Abdelilah Benkirane as prime minister. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Opinion polls are banned in Morocco near election time, but a survey in February by the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis showed around 64 percent of people planned to abstain. (africanews.com)
  • During the election campaign, most parties have ignored issues of individual liberties, in particular the call by some activists to decriminalise sex out of wedlock, a divisive subject in Morocco. (africanews.com)
  • The next election to fall to the Islamists was in Morocco at the end of November, when the Justice and Development Party (PJD) picked up nearly one-third of the seats in parliament. (eurasiareview.com)
  • This paves the way for a fifth election in three years, after the most diverse and unlikely coalition in the country's history - which featured centrists, right wingers, left wingers, and even Islamists - eventually hit a level of gridlock it could not overcome, just one year into its existence. (jstreet.org)
  • Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has decided not to run in the upcoming election, his office said on Wednesday. (jstreet.org)
  • Once an election is called, Bennett will be replaced by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid. (jstreet.org)
  • The list of ministers included members of the liberal RNI and the election runner-up the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), both considered close to the palace, and the conservative Istiqlal party. (newarab.com)
  • Bassima Hakkaoui of the Islamist Justice and Development Party sees no link between the nation's patriarchal social structure and politics. (qantara.de)
  • Such calls were even made by MPs from the Justice and Development Party, the Islamist party whose secretary-general heads the government and who not only signed the agreement but also defended it on the pretext that it would give Morocco the ability to express its commitment to defending the Palestinian cause. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • Some Christians in Morocco attribute the change in the country, generally known for its tolerance towards religious minorities, to the appointments of Mohammed Naciri as Minister of Justice and Taieb Cherkaoui as Minister of Interior in January. (persecution.org)
  • Former French justice minister Robert Badinter - no particular friend of the Muslim community - has warned his fellow citizens not to fall into the extremist trap of letting barbaric violence divide French society , of which nearly 10 percent is Muslim. (ips-dc.org)
  • While disturbing, none of this news was surprising (though the French had greatly underestimated the effect of the prisons, where young men who commit petty crimes fall under the spell of radical fundamentalists with terrorist connections). (nybooks.com)
  • Soon, he wrote, the majority of Muslims in the Middle East "will be governed by radical Islamist regimes that believe in waging jihad on Israel and America, wiping Israel off the map, suppressing Christians, reducing the status of women to even lower than it is now, and in their right as the true interpreters of God's will to govern as dictators. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Those rejecting it, including a radical Islamist group which aims to overthrow the king and install a caliph, had the chance to make their cases on public radio and television. (globalmediaholding.ma)
  • In the event of an Islamist landslide, a new Shariah-minded prime minister would have the authority to appoint all senior civil servants and oversee domestic security. (globalmediaholding.ma)
  • They called for the abolition of the normalisation agreement with Israel and for the expulsion of the Israeli representative in Rabat, who actually claimed that he left Morocco last week to go to Israel to check on the health of his bedridden father. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • Sources in Morocco told Compass that the government gave the U.S. Embassy in Rabat a list of 40 citizens to be deported. (persecution.org)
  • RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Under apparent pressure from other Arab powers, Algeria on Tuesday invited its neighbor and rival Morocco to an Arab League summit it's hosting in Algiers in November. (apnews.com)
  • RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Arab nations that have normalized or are considering improving relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel's war with Hamas. (kxan.com)
  • The ongoing rapprochement could reinvigorate bilateral trade while causing Turkey to distance itself from Islamist groups, such as militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • Israel has settled much of the occupied West Bank while the Gaza Strip, another Palestinian territory, is ruled by hardline Islamists. (perthnow.com.au)
  • Also there was the foreign minister of Egypt, which in 1979 became the first Arab country to make peace with Israel. (nbcnews.com)
  • Citizens went to the polls in Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Finally, the March Negev Summit gathering of the foreign ministers of Egypt, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and the US in Israel represented the culminating point of that normalization momentum. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • It is important for America and its allies that Morocco achieve this balance at a time when Egypt is not in a position to serve as a regional powerbroker. (globalmediaholding.ma)
  • Morocco can extract concessions from both parties to the conflict that Egypt never could. (globalmediaholding.ma)
  • Senior diplomats from the U.S., Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Morocco and Bahrain met in Manama, Bahrain, on Monday to push forward with the establishment of the Negev Forum, a new framework for cooperation in the region. (jstreet.org)
  • Countries in the region like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt are also opposed to any political involvement of Islamist parties. (ksl.com)
  • Senior ministers in the new Netanyahu government have for years been outspoken critics of Egypt for its refusal to act against Hizbullah and for its support for the Hizbullah/Iran-sponsored Hamas terror group. (jpost.com)
  • In a nutshell then, both the Hizbullah network's targets and its relationship to Egypt's Sunni Islamist opposition expose clearly the danger the Iranian regime constitutes to Egypt. (jpost.com)
  • Since the beginning of this year, tangible changes have occurred either directly with the overthrow of the regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, or indirectly as was the case in Morocco and Jordan, where anger was absorbed through some reforms. (pij.org)
  • Morocco announced a new 24-member cabinet led by billionaire tycoon Aziz Akhannouch on Thursday. (newarab.com)
  • The (region's) moderates are convening to talk and to form a front against the extremists," Gil Haskel, an official with Israel's Foreign Ministry, told public broadcaster Kan, referring to Iran's hardline Islamist rulers. (nbcnews.com)
  • He said Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki had made clear the limitations of his role as foreign minister in Iran's current political climate. (jcvignoli.com)
  • On January 13, two days after millions in France marched to commemorate those assassinated by Islamist radicals the week before, Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls gave a stirring speech in the French National Assembly that was celebrated by socialists and conservatives alike as among the best in recent memory. (nybooks.com)
  • How do you feel about being the only female minister in the Moroccan government? (qantara.de)
  • Morocco also has a deep historical bond with the Jewish people: the king protected 200,000 Moroccan Jews from the Nazis during World War II, and nearly one million Israelis have Moroccan roots - including some senior political and military officials. (globalmediaholding.ma)
  • This new architecture - the shared capabilities we are building - intimidates and deters our common enemies, first and foremost Iran and its proxies,' Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said alongside his US, Emirati, Bahrani, Moroccan and Egyptian counterparts. (perthnow.com.au)
  • The demonstrations in Morocco on Sunday and Monday were the largest popular referendum against the normalisation agreement signed by the Moroccan authorities with Israel at the end of last year. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • 3/12/2010 Morocco ( CDN ) - Moroccan authorities deported more than 40 foreign Christian aid workers this week in an ongoing, nationwide crackdown that included the expulsion of foster parents caring for 33 Moroccan orphans. (persecution.org)
  • At the meeting, the Moroccan foreign minister invited Mottaki to visit his country. (jcvignoli.com)
  • The Prime Minister is chosen by the King of Morocco from the largest party elected to parliament. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the Prime Minister is a member of your party. (qantara.de)
  • The General Secretary of our party, Abdelillah Benkirane, did indeed impose conditions on the other parties, for example that if someone has already served as a minister for longer than one term of office, they should not be nominated again. (qantara.de)
  • A sizable majority of Moroccans approved the new Constitution, which calls for King Mohammed VI to cede half his power to a prime minister appointed from the parliament's majority party and ensures the rights of women and non-Arabs, including the country's large Berber population. (globalmediaholding.ma)
  • The major parliamentary opposition parties, including the main Islamist party, endorsed the Constitution. (globalmediaholding.ma)
  • The attack follows three bombs at the Interior Ministry on Wednesday evening, in which state news agency SANA said five people were killed, including Abdullah Kayrouz, a member of parliament from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. (newsmax.com)
  • The foreign ministers of United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, which normalized ties with Israel in a 2020 U.S. diplomatic drive, attended the summit in Sde Boker - where the founding Israeli prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, is buried. (nbcnews.com)
  • Israel's new foreign minister was in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, kicking off the highest-level visit by an Israeli official to the Gulf Arab state since the two countries formally established relations nine months ago. (nepalnews.com)
  • In particular, he presided over the deepening of Israel's ties with its new Arab partners, namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Morocco. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • The U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords, aimed at winning broader recognition of Israel in the Arab world, paved the way for trade deals and military cooperation with Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates starting in 2020. (kxan.com)
  • The Islamists, he explains, were kicked out by electoral design: "The voting system in Morocco is not free and transparent. (gfmag.com)
  • The two-day desert retreat was further clouded by U.S.-Russia tensions over Ukraine , an Islamic State-linked attack in Israel and health worries as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was diagnosed with Covid-19 after meeting Blinken. (nbcnews.com)
  • Writing in The Jerusalem Post , Israeli neo-con Barry Rubin compared the Islamists to communists and 2011 to 1917. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Press access to Lapid's various events in the UAE has been strictly limited to Emirati media or select Israeli outlets traveling with the minister. (nepalnews.com)
  • It was hailed at the time by both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump as among their greatest achievements. (nepalnews.com)
  • In acknowledgement of Netanyahu, Lapid told diplomats gathered at the Israeli Embassy event that the former prime minister is "the architect of the Abraham Accords" and that "this moment is his, no less than it is ours. (nepalnews.com)
  • If this development is good news for Israel and the US, it comes with two old challenges: an Israeli diplomatic apparatus insufficiently manned to cope with the exigencies of such a regional role, and a persisting Palestinian crisis that will keep undermining the rise of Israel as a contributor to that new regional order. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • The Palestinian official news agency Wafa said a Palestinian teenager was wounded by live fire and 16 others by rubber bullets in clashes with Israeli forces at the site near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, a frequent point of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. (jstreet.org)
  • The cross-partisan coalition government of nationalist Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said conditions are not right for any renewal of diplomacy with the Palestinians - who, for their part, have placed the onus on Israel. (perthnow.com.au)
  • For instance, in an interview with Gulf News last Thursday, Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Issam el-Erian defended Hizbullah (and Iran) against his own government, claiming that Nasrallah and the Iranian ayatollahs are right to accuse President Hosni Mubarak of being little more than an Israeli stooge. (jpost.com)
  • Spain has stepped up security as well as efforts to prevent the radicalisation of young Muslim citizens following attacks in Paris this month in which Islamist gunmen killed 17 people. (channelstv.com)
  • Morocco was rocked by a series of Islamist extremist attacks in 2003 that left 45 people dead, including 12 suicide bombers. (typepad.com)
  • An expert on religious freedom in the Middle East who requested anonymity said that attacks on the church are inevitable even in a Western-looking, modern country like Morocco, as the church grows and becomes more visible. (persecution.org)
  • The United States, European powers, and Arab states bestowed their official blessing on Syria's newly-formed opposition coalition on Wednesday, despite increasing signs of Western unease at the rise of militant Islamists in the rebel ranks. (newsmax.com)
  • Following his win, Akhannouch pledged to improve conditions for citizens of Morocco, where entrenched social inequalities have been exacerbated by the pandemic. (newarab.com)
  • This campaign's focus on the prime minister in person reflects anger at the mix of money and politics which Akhannouch is seen as embodying," said analyst Mohamed Chakir. (modernghana.com)
  • The firm was among several major companies hit by a boycott in 2018 over a cost-of-living crisis when Akhannouch was agriculture minister. (modernghana.com)
  • The Constitution of Morocco grants executive powers to the government and allows the head of government to propose and dismiss cabinet members, provincial governors, and ambassadors, to oversee government programs and the delivery of public services, and to dissolve the lower house of parliament with the king's approval. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unless the occupation ends, Arab normalization meetings are nothing but an illusion and free reward for Israel," Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh told his cabinet on Monday. (nbcnews.com)
  • The 24-member cabinet including seven women is largely made up of technocrats, with foreign affairs minister Nasser Bourita keeping his role. (newarab.com)
  • Senior Liberal cabinet ministers met with Blais' family in Quebec's Eastern Townships region in January and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at the time he believed Blais was still alive. (surreynowleader.com)
  • In an audio message accompanying the photos, the islamist group warns tourists to stay away from Tunesia, algeria, Morocco and Mauritania. (afrik-news.com)
  • Morocco adopted the new constitution after decades of skirmishes over the separation of powers and the king's role in the day-to-day running of the country. (africanews.com)
  • Communications Minister Remis Fulgance Dandjinou told Italian public broadcaster Rai that Edith Blais of Sherbrooke, Que. (surreynowleader.com)
  • The appointment of a former Egyptian army lieutenant as the interim leader of al Qaeda suggests a power struggle within the Islamist organization. (cnn.com)
  • The minister told reporters late Friday the bomb was detonated remotely, in a style normally used by the terrorist organization. (typepad.com)
  • The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. (apnews.com)
  • Yet beyond the social polarization - manifested by both senseless Islamist violence and the cheap Islamophobia of opportunistic politicians and media - lies a more interesting and nuanced reality: signs of hope and progress. (ips-dc.org)
  • The UAE, Bahrain and Morocco normalised ties with Israel under a 2020 US initiative known as the Abraham Accords. (perthnow.com.au)
  • King Mohammed VI and his men remain the center of power in Morocco, and the political parties are simply required to execute their plans," says Abdeslam Maghraoui, a professor of political science at Duke University. (gfmag.com)
  • A plurality of voters threw their support behind Islamist parties. (eurasiareview.com)
  • From Morocco to the Himalayas, online forums associated with al Qaeda overflow with declarations that global jihad will continue. (cnn.com)
  • A three-day ultimatum which begun at midnight on Thursday was posted on an islamist web site from the Maghreb al Qaeda. (afrik-news.com)
  • Home to centuries-old oases that have been a trademark of Morocco, this region about 170 miles southeast of Marrakesh is reeling from the effects of climate change, which has created an emergency for the kingdom's agriculture. (maghrebi.org)
  • The Prime Minister of Morocco (officially Head of Government, Arabic: رئيس حكومة المملكة المغربية, romanized: rayiys hukumat almamlakat almaghribia) is the Head of Government of the Kingdom of Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
  • A newly appointed prime minister is responsible for forming the government it will head by leading negotiations between the king and parliament to fill ministry positions. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 20 September 2007, Abbas El Fassi was appointed 14th Prime Minister of Morocco by King Mohammed VI. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 17 March 2017, Saadeddine Othmani was appointed 16th Prime Minister of Morocco by King Mohammed VI. (wikipedia.org)
  • On Monday, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani praised the Pakistani military's response to the sudden arrival of U.S. forces. (cnn.com)
  • The two executives (president and prime minister) working together in a harmonious manner will be extremely important for a successful transition to stable institutions and a healthy democracy,' he said. (ksl.com)
  • Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologized for the 1970s immigration raids that targeted Pacific Islanders and expressed the government's "sorrow, remorse and regret" over the raids. (rendon.com)
  • If all of these voices - on the street, in government, from the prime minister and in parliament -agree on normalisation being cancelled, then what is the point of holding on to the agreement with the racist, usurper and criminal state? (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • Islamists lose power to liberals but the king continues to dominate political decision-making. (gfmag.com)
  • What genuinely shocked the public, and the political and intellectual classes that claim to speak for it, was the news that a noticeable number of students in what are euphemistically called here les quartiers (meaning poor and heavily Muslim neighborhoods) refused to recognize the moment of silence President Hollande had called for. (nybooks.com)
  • Military, Political, And Intelligence News Are Also Covered. (blogspot.com)
  • Morocco appears to have found a new model for political transition. (globalmediaholding.ma)
  • VoA News: Libya says NATO air forces bombed a site near the national broadcast offices early Saturday while Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was inside delivering an address to the nation. (typepad.com)
  • Afrik-news is a daily online newspaper that highlights information from around the world with emphasis on Africa. (afrik-news.com)
  • A Canadian woman and her Italian companion who have been missing in West Africa since last December are alive but no longer in the country, a senior minister with Burkina Faso's government says. (surreynowleader.com)
  • I am a French Muslim woman of Tunisian origins, who has devoted my life to building ties of communication and cooperation between Muslims and Jews in Europe, Israel-Palestine and in Muslim countries like Morocco and my homeland of Tunisia. (stljewishlight.org)
  • Two US Air Force B-1B Lancer aircraft from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, conducted a Bomber Task Force mission to Morocco and Mauritania on. (defenceweb.co.za)
  • 2. (C) The Ambassador also mentioned statements attributed to Benaissa in the press about Morocco-Iran relations following the foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement meeting in Malaysia. (jcvignoli.com)
  • The Ambassador underscored the importance of a public statement by the Government of Morocco (GOM) in support of the USG's important step and for its willingness to reach out to Iran in combination with members of the European Union. (jcvignoli.com)
  • While no armed Islamist group has taken responsibility for their abduction, they are believed to have been kidnapped and later taken to Mali," said the report, titled "Abuses by Armed Islamist Groups in Burkina Faso's Sahel Region," citing an interview with Malian security sources on Jan. 13. (surreynowleader.com)
  • Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani described the discussions as helpful to fend off Iranian-backed groups like Hezbollah. (perthnow.com.au)
  • This study examines the construction of national identity in two speeches, held respectively by King Abdullah II of Jordan and King Mohammed VI of Morocco, during the height of the Arab Spring in 2011. (lu.se)
  • Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is expected to meet the UAE's foreign minister in Abu Dhabi, with talks likely to focus in part on Iran, which both countries view as a top regional threat. (nepalnews.com)
  • Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, Thursday, reiterated Autria's inability to comply with the demands made by the hostage-takers as their demands were out of Vienna's jurisdiction, although efforts were being made to secure the release of hostages. (afrik-news.com)
  • BEIRUT - Syrian rebels are gaining ground and might win, Russia's deputy foreign minister said on Thursday, in the starkest such admission from a major ally of President Bashar al-Assad. (newsmax.com)
  • Because conversion is a taboo, if the government looks like it is doing nothing in regard to all the foreign missionaries that are coming and 'corrupting' the country and its 'national soul,' it gives credit to Islamists who could challenge the 'Islam-ness' of the Royal Family and the government, and that's just what Morocco can't afford," said the expert. (persecution.org)
  • Wikileaks Diplomatic Cable: The Foreign Minister And The U.s. (jcvignoli.com)