Report: Over 250 Moroccan Fighters Linked to ISIS in Libya, Syria

At least 260 Moroccans are fighting in Libya for Daesh. According to the statistics published in a recent report by the European Center for Terrorism in France, there are several hundred Moroccans, leading the fight on Libyan soil, for the benefit of the terrorist organization Daesh. To be more precise in its distribution, the report indicates that 70 of them were engaged on the front in Idlib, in northern Syria. To these were added others from Iraq, other areas of Syria, the Sahel and the Sahara, reports the daily Al Ahdath Al Maghribia.

Arrived from other parts of the world, particularly from Syria and Iraq, these Moroccans have come to swell the number of their compatriots already established in Libya. The report reveals that they are described as "dangerous" and constitute real threats to the peace of the countries of North Africa and Southern Europe. This is, notes the newspaper, a reality of which the competent Moroccan authorities have always been aware, while closely following the developments of the situation on the ground, in Libya. In this regard, the director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), Abdelhak Khiame, had affirmed that "Morocco was working to consolidate its internal security, while monitoring the borders to counter the terrorism exported, particularly from Libya".

Indeed, more than once already, press releases from the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior have noted the porosity of the Algerian borders through which weapons are transferred from Libya. A permanent security concern for which the Algerian authorities are urgently called upon to cooperate, the same source emphasizes.