The Moroccan futsal team is playing its third and final group match of the 2025 Islamic Solidarity Games this Saturday. The team is facing Afghanistan in Riyadh in a decisive match for access to the tournament’s semi-finals.
French-Moroccan actor Roschdy Zem plays Commander Mohamed Bida in the film "13 Days, 13 Nights" by director Martin Bourboulon. Filmed in Casablanca, Morocco, the film recounts the last mission of the French embassy during the fall of Kabul in August 2021.
Minors, particularly from Morocco, are being recruited on social networks, notably through groups on Telegram, YouTube, or WhatsApp by criminal networks from Belgium or in Brussels neighborhoods. They are being used as drug dealers.
From the world’s leading producer and exporter of cannabis ahead of Afghanistan to a transit country for cocaine, a country of origin for a significant part of the drug mafias, Morocco has become, over time, a fallback base for traffickers. The reason is "a part of the Moroccan political and administrative elite is involved in drug trafficking".
The Moroccan-Dutch MMA fighter Nabil Haryouli will face Afghan Zabiullah Mubarez as part of the Brave CF 87 sporting event to be held on Sunday in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.
A private jet, allegedly belonging to a Moroccan company or registered in Morocco, would have crashed on Saturday in a remote area of Afghanistan, with six occupants on board.
Morocco is participating in its first women’s World Cup, which will kick off on Thursday, July 20, 2023. This participation gives hope to Afghan players who hope to have this opportunity one day. These players were forced to leave their country after the Taliban regime took control of Afghanistan.
During a dispute, a Moroccan butcher stabbed his Afghan colleague, leaving him in critical condition. The alleged aggressor was arrested and taken into custody.
The German fighter of Afghan origin Nasrat Haqparast, who represented Morocco at the first MMA event organized by UFC Paris, at the Accor Arena on Saturday, won by unanimous decision against the veteran Canadian lightweight John Makdessi.
German fighter of Afghan origin Nasrat Haqparast has expressed his wish to represent Morocco in his next fight, which will take place this weekend at UFC Paris, following the UFC’s ban on "raising or showing the flag of Afghanistan" during the event.
The Moroccan Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi could be the successor to Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda killed in a US air strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, on the night of Saturday to Sunday, July 31.
In Belgium, around fifty fighters who went to Syria or Afghanistan and were also convicted of terrorism - mostly Belgian-Moroccans - have, to date, been deprived of their Belgian nationality.