LAAYOUNE, Western Sahara — Keltoum Khayat left home barefoot at age 15, along with five other teenagers, telling her parents she was going to stay the night with her aunt.

Moroccans celebrate their World Cup victory against Portugal in the Morocco-administered Western Sahara city of Laayoune, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Noureddine Abakchou) ...

In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, a Sahrawi woman in traditional dress walks through a low income neighborhood in Laayoune, the capital of the Western Sahara which has few jobs and ...

LAAYOUNE, Western Sahara — Dozens of buildings are still blackened from fire on this remote desert city’s main boulevard, their windows shattered, their doors boarded up. A hostile silence has ...

Laayoune is the largest city in Western Sahara, which has been under the control of Morocco since the end of Spanish colonial rule in 1975.. The Algerian-backed Polisario Front has been ...

LAAYOUNE, Western Sahara — Sultana Khaya is covered in bruises. The deep purple welts run up her legs and across her arms — the result of one of many beatings she says she's received from the ...

LAAYOUNE, Western Sahara—The world’s longest minefield stretches hundreds of miles through the Sahara, cutting a path through one of Africa’s quietest conflicts. For nearly three decades, a ...