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Which Rif group did Abd el-Krim’s family belong to?

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Spanish soldiers operate artillery cannons in a desert landscape near Melilla, with smoke billowing as a cannon fires during a 1930s battle. — Rif War Spanish artillery firing outside Melilla during the Rif War.

Abd el-Krim’s family belonged to the Aït Youssef Ou Ali faction of the Beni Urriaguel, which was the largest and most populous Berber group in the Rif region.1