Morocco Bound

Campaigning began in Morocco Thursday for September 8 elections that will seal the fate of the Moroccan Islamist party which heads the current government coalition. Nearly 18 million citizens, 46 percent of them women, will be eligible to vote to choose 395 deputies...

Morocco is to close its embassy in Algiers on Friday, an official source said, after Algeria severed ties with the kingdom over what it said were "hostile actions".  From Friday, the embassy "will close, and the ambassador and all staff will be repatriated to Rabat",...

Morocco says Algeria's cutting of diplomatic ties 'unjustified' Morocco's foreign ministry said Tuesday that Algeria's decision to cut diplomatic ties with its neighbour as "completely unjustified", adding that the decision was based on "false, even absurd pretexts"....

A dual Moroccan-Italian citizen jailed for three and a half years for "insulting Islam" will walk free Monday after a court gave her a suspended two-month jail term, a rights group said. "She will be leaving prison Monday evening," a member of Morocco's Association of...