Morocco's government is threatening to take control of U.N.-monitored buffer zones in Western Sahara amid concerns that the mission is failing to keep out Polisario Front independence fighters.

Bir Lehlou (Liberated ... Expressing deep regret at the US administration’s clear pro-Morocco bias, ... They also affirm the legal nature of Western Sahara as a decolonisation issue that has not ...

Since the 1991 ceasefire began, they have seen Morocco develop Western Sahara’s towns and cities, ... The killing of three Algerians near Bir Lehlou in November only soured things further.

Algeria, Morocco’s neighbour and regional rival, is the key foreign backer of the Polisario Front, which has campaigned for independence for the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara since the ...

Morocco ordered dozens of its personnel to withdraw from the U.N. mission in Western Sahara—known as MINURSO—and has threatened to pull troops from U.N. peacekeeping operations worldwide.

In a recent landmark ruling, the African Court denounced the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara as a serious violation of the right to self-determination. In a landmark ruling of 22 September ...

The leader of the Polisario Front, Western Sahara's independence movement, said on Saturday the group had ended a 29-year ceasefire with Morocco to resume its armed struggle following a border ...

In 1975, Morocco effectively annexed Western Sahara by staging the Green March—a peaceful procession of 350,000 Moroccans who walked into the region and claimed it as their own.