SALE, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan authorities this month arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel, a region south of the Sahara Desert, officials ...

MOROCCO IS LIKE MY MOTHER, UNITED STATES, LIKE MY FATHER, WHILE COMFORTABLE HERE AT HOME IN PITTSBURGH, MOHSEN AL JAFARI IS RESTLESS, HIS HEART ACHING FOR THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TRYING TO SURVIVE.

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI inaugurated last Friday a huge education center for foreign Imams in the capital city, Rabat. This $20 million facility is primarily intended to Muslim scholars and imams ...

At the mouth of the sprawling plaza that houses Casablanca's magnificent Hassan II mosque overlooking the Atlantic Ocean lie two squat, ornate buildings. In these structures, flanked by neatly ...

I am African and Muslim but not Moroccan, so why do I feel proud watching Morocco rewrite World Cup history? When they wear the red shirt, Morocco represent their small part of north Africa. But the ...

Morocco has built an impressive and strategic network to regulate religious affairs and paid close attention to how Islam is taught, preached, and organized. But to be effective over the long-term, it ...

Here in Casablanca, everybody still comes to Rick’s. (Well, at least the tourists do.) But there’s more to Casablanca — and Morocco — than silver-screen nostalgia; in fact, some of the lessons of ...

Chababe is a lively site on Facebook, YouTube and the web where young Moroccans can talk about what troubles them — sex, suicide, online harassment, violence or religious extremism. The three-member ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco has become the latest Muslim-majority country to authorize Islamic banks, amid growing market demand for Sharia-compliant banking. The Moroccan central bank announced ...