BADES MOROCCO: It’s one of the shortest land borders in the world: a few dozen meters of plastic cord across a sandbank separate Morocco from the tiny Spanish...
AL-HOCEIMA, Morocco: In Morocco’s neglected Rif region, where outrage erupted last year over the gruesome death of a fishmonger, calls for justice have...
RABAT: In France it slipped into legend after delighting long-haired teenagers in the ’70s and ’80s, but in Morocco the tireless moped spurts on, despite an...
RABAT: Morocco’s ban on the sale and production of burqa full-face Muslim veils beloved of Salafists has sharply divided opinions in the North African...
RABAT: Trouble is stirring in the remote sands of disputed Western Sahara in an area near the Mauritanian border where moves by the pro-independence Polisario...
FEZ, Morocco: Nestled in a labyrinth of streets in the heart of old Fez stands the world’s oldest working library. Its sculpted dark wooden door stands almost...
EL-JADIDA, Morocco: The equestrian art of tbourida, inspired by the historical charges of the feared cavalrymen of Morocco, fascinated Romantic painter Eugene...
RABAT: Morocco will elect a parliament Friday for the first time since an Islamist-led government took office following Arab Spring uprisings that toppled...
RABAT: Two months before it hosts the COP22 climate conference, Morocco is preparing to launch an ambitious project to turn its mosques green as a commitment...
RABAT: Beachside trysts, a 3-ton drug bust and a dodgy attempted land deal: the scandals facing Morocco’s ruling Islamist party are piling up ahead of crucial...
PARIS: A potentially critical conflict has gone largely unnoticed in southern Libya yet could open up a gateway to sub-Saharan Africa for Daesh (ISIS),...
ATME, Syria: Jihadist group Ahrar al-Sham is emerging from the shadows of the larger rebel outfit Al-Nusra Front as key player in northern Syria, playing up...
ATME, Syria: "The real revolution in Syria is over, we have been betrayed," laments a bitter Abu Mahmoud, a respected rebel leader, accusing fellow commanders...
ATME, Syria: Syrian rebels once welcomed fighters of the jihadist Al-Nusra Front with open arms but disputes over the extremists' strict interpretation of...
AL-YAKUBIYE, Syria: The Bibles lie untouched on the carved wooden stands but the chandeliers have been dumped upside down on the altar; the Christian village...
ATME, Syria: Finally they’ve arrived – nearly 2,000 kerosene heaters for thousands of displaced Syrians facing a bitingly cold winter in camps in...
DARRET EZZA, Syria: Jihadists led by the radical Al-Nusra Front seized a strategic army base in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Monday, in a fresh...
SHEIKH SULEIMAN BASE, Syria: Radical Islamist rebels on Sunday seized large swathes of a Syrian military base west of Aleppo, as they consolidated their...
ATME, Syria: Most of them avoid reporters like the plague but in "liberated" northwestern Syria, it is difficult not to run into foreign jihadist...
TOURMANIN, Syria: Syrian rebels captured a regime pilot after shooting down his fighter jet over Daret Ezza, in the northern province of Aleppo, witnesses...
QABTAN AL-JABAL: Rebels who have besieged Sheikh Suleiman army base for nearly two months are confident it will fall in days, giving them full control of a...
MAARET AL-NUMAN, Syria: Syrian jets hammered a rebel town on Friday, the second day of an assault in which the regime is accused of using cluster bombs, as...
MAARET AL-NUMAN, Syria: Warplanes pounded a key rebel-hold town in Syria for a second straight day on Friday, hours before peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi flies...
MAARET AL-NUMAN, Syria: Syrian fighter jets blasted the rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan on Thursday, killing at least 44 people, rescuers said, adding...
MAARET AL-NUMAN: A roar rips the sky and the fighter jet streaks past at low altitude. It wheels round and on its second pass drops a bomb before heading just...