The C-130 Hercules aircraft was carrying 60 soldiers, nine crew members and 12 civilians, and was getting ready to land at an airport near the border with the disputed region of Western Sahara.
A majority in each country polled (except Lebanon) thinks Iranian involvement in the Middle East is largely negative.
A Moroccan military transport aircraft crashed while trying to land in the country's southern town of Guelmim. Here are a few still images of the crash site taken from a July 26, 2011 video by Morocco TV.
The crash of a military plane in southern Morocco has killed 78 people, according to reports.
Perceptions of the U.S. and President Barack Obama have nosedived in the Arab World to levels lower than during the Bush administration, a remarkable reversal for Obama, who made a speech vowing a new era of relations with the Arab world shortly after being elected.
Mariah Carey resurfaced Wednesday, two months after giving birth to her twins Monroe and Moroccan.
Moroccan constitutional reform isn't sitting well with some of the North African nation's activists.
For Morocco's Berbers, King Mohammed VI's recent constitutional reforms are nothing but rhetoric. Literally.
North Africa is not a homogenous bloc of Arab societies, struggling in unison for one pan-Arab cause. U.S. media coverage of the Arab spring in Tunisia and Egypt has largely ignored the mass movement of North Africa's ethnic minorities.
Clothing retailer Gap Inc will enter Africa this year, as part of an ongoing international push, with plans to open stores in Egypt and Morocco.
The World Bank's political risk guarantee agency said on Monday it would mobilize about $1 billion for insurance coverage for countries in the Middle East and North Africa to encourage foreign direct investment.
On June 21, starting at dusk, over 150 musicians featured performances along Water Street in Gastown. Every kind of music was heard - from jazz, classical, and acoustic to heavy metal, indie and pop. Founded in France in 1982, throughout the years Fete de la Mausique has become an international musical festival celebrated in Canada, the USA, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Australia, Vietnam, Congo, Cameroon, Fiji, Colombia, Chile, Nepal, and Japan.
Pro-democracy protesters in Morocco are dissatisfied by the package of constitutional reforms the country’s king unveiled on a television broadcast last night.
The king of Morocco is preparing to introduce a series of constitutional reforms likely in a bid to prevent the kind of massive unrest witnessed across the Arab world and North Africa.
According to reports, both French and Moroccan authorities have launched an investigation into allegations that a former French government minister participated in a sexual orgy with underage boys in Morocco.
A new travel tips contest from iexplore.com offers weekly prizes and a grand prize trip to Morocco.
At least 270 migrants from Libya heading towards Europe may have drowned after their ship sank off the coast of Tunisia in a storm, authorities said on Thursday.
A U.S. citizen who has been stuck in Kuwait for months after embassy officials confiscated his passport is asking Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to intervene, The AP reported.
A lobster-like animal that was the biggest predator of its kind survived much longer and gota lot bigger than anyone thought.
The gently sloping beaches of Normandy lend themselves well to invasions. From here, William the Conqueror set out to invade England in 1066 and in World War II they were the landing site for the allied assault on Nazi-occupied France.
The blast in the Argana café that killed more than 15 foreigners included 10 French, two Canadian, a Dutch national and two Moroccans and injured a dozen others.
German prosecutors allege that one of the three men arrested on Friday on suspicions of planning a bomb attack received his orders from a senior al-Qaeda figure from the Afghan-Pakistan border.