Rabat, March 21 -- Saudi Arabia's King Salman has called King Mohammed VI and requested Morocco review their "brotherly relationship."

The Saudi Press Agency ( SPA ) announced the phone call in a statement on March 21.

The phone call comes two months after Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita vaguely announced in an Al Jazeera interview that Morocco had withdrawn its troops from the Saudi-led coalition at war in Yemen against Houthi rebels.

Many have speculated about the seemingly stormy relationship between Saudi Arabia and Morocco.

Morocco took a neutral stance in the Saudi-led blockade on Qatar. A few days after the start of the blockade, King Mohammed VI asked the Moroccan government to dispatch food assistance to Qatar. In No...