Extracts from the 2013 report of the General Directorate of External Security of France revealed that Algeria had encouraged the Mokhtar Belmokhtar terrorist group to carry out attacks against Moroccan interests in Western Sahara.
Moroccan academic Hisham Aidi, a professor at Columbia University in the United States, won many prizes for his books, in which he discussed the relationship between art and politics.
A US top-secret mission landed in Morocco in 1942 to cut a steel cable in the Sebou river. The operation was a crucial step of the North Africa landing carried out by the Allied forces against the Vichy France forces.