Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to claim the land.

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria ...

ALGIERS, Algeria — Ten suspected Islamists and three soldiers were killed in a fierce gunbattle in the Sahara Desert when a convoy of heavily armed militants was attacked by the ...

A French journalist is facing seven years in prison in Algeria over an interview with a soccer official accused of ties to a ...

Algerian and Polisario media ... Algerian media claimed «dozens of Moroccan soldiers had announced their rebellion and desertion from the army, seeking refuge in Western Sahara to escape the ...

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

“The soldiers from Western Sahara know the country, and we fight for the freedom of our people. Moroccan soldiers, on the other hand, have not chosen to fight but have been forced to do so as ...

Catastrophic malnutrition rates now plague the Polisario-run, Algerian-controlled Tindouf camps, according to a new UN ...

MOROCCAN SOLDIERS are seen on an earth wall that separates areas controlled by Morocco and the Polisario ... against the Algerian-backed Polisario Front independence ... Western Sahara is Moroccan.

Around 40,000 Sahrawis live in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, guarded by 150,000 Moroccan soldiers. They live in slums, as prisoners in their own towns, unable to leave or enter. When ...

Algeria officially opened its territory to «Sahrawi refugees» fleeing «Moroccan occupation» only after the Green March. But ...