 Responding to these rumors, French troops launched a punitive expedition into Spanish Morocco in May 1915, which dispersed Raisuni's followers but failed to capture Raisuni himself.In September 1922, and after an interview with Colonel and permission of the , he submitted to the Spanish authorities and subsequently joined forces with the Spanish army in the Rif War of the 1920s.This agreement was heavily criticized at the time as Raisuni's forces, heavily weakened by their conflict with Krim, were seen as on the verge of defeat.