Unsolved for 44 years, a case into the disappearance of a prominent Moroccan exile kidnapped off a Paris sidewalk has resurfaced _ and now is posing uncomfortable questions for France's leadership.

The kidnapping and assassination of Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka, fictionalized in Yves Boisset's L'Attentat in 1972, gets a more historically accurate treatment in Serge Le Péron's ...

RETURNING to Morocco after 35 years in exile, the Ben Barkas looked bemused by the fuss. They pushed through the crowds of former political prisoners who were preparing a hero's welcome at the airport ...

Israel's involvement in the assassination of a prominent Moroccan opposition leader has been revealed in a new book. Mehdi Ben Barka, exiled leader of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces ...

A lynchpin in the 1960s post-colonial movement, revolutionary Mehdi Ben Barka disappeared shortly before a conference on Third World action. His body was never found, and no-one claimed responsibility ...

Last week a fiery-eyed grocer’s son stood among 2,000 cheering Moroccans in a Casablanca movie house to announce the formation of a new political party, the National Union of Popular Forces. It was ...

The activist who was murdered in Paris in 1965 was a hero of the global struggle against imperialism, but files from the Czechoslovak secret service cast doubt on his independence It is one of the ...

Up to speed with modern French history? Then you'll have a better shot at making sense of I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed, a playful but murky thriller based on real events. In 1965, exiled Moroccan ...