Long seen as the West's diplomatic leader on the Western Sahara conflict, France is the most important country to fully throw its weight behind Morocco's unlawful, unilateral annexation of the ...

Therefore, Morocco understands that it can’t achieve its hegemonic goal without the annexation of Western Sahara. This dynamic, accompanied by a history of mistrust, has heightened tensions ...

Western Sahara sits on the Atlantic coast and has a desert rich in phosphates. Morocco annexed the former Spanish colony in 1975, sparking a conflict with the pro-independence Polisario Front.

WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - Talks to resolve the conflict over Western Sahara should take place on the sole basis of a Moroccan plan that would give the region some autonomy under the North ...

His latest awful act was buying Morocco’s support for the normalization of relations with Israel by endorsing that latter’s seizure of the Western Sahara. Rabat had no colorable claim ...