(JTA) — Several hundred Moroccan Jews protested against U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s characterization of Western Sahara as occupied by the North African kingdom. The April 30 protest ...

A nearly three-decade-old ceasefire has ended in occupied Western Sahara — what many consider to be Africa’s last colony. Fighting has broken out in several areas between the Moroccan military ...

The United States' recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara last year has emboldened Rabat to take a harder line with European states on the issue - an approach ...

Morocco has occupied Western Sahara since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and international law. Over the past four decades, thousands of Sahrawi activists have been tortured, ...

More farms are being built across Morocco and the occupied Western Sahara. ... This picture taken on December 12, 2020 shows (L to R) US and Moroccan flags next to a US State ...

At the UN, Morocco has used its institutional involvement, particularly by threatening to withdraw its peacekeepers deployed around the world, to dominate and direct discussions about Western Sahara.

Morocco has illegally occupied the former Spanish colony for more than 40 years. ... the administration made sure that U.S. foreign aid goes exclusively to Morocco and not into Western Sahara.

In response, Morocco expelled the civilian personnel of the peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, MINURSO. At time of writing, only some staff had been able to return.

Moroccan forces occupied Western Sahara after Spain withdrew in 1975. But the Polisario Front declared independence, calling the territory the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

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.

For Morocco's King Mohammed VI, this summer could go down in history. For five decades, the Western Sahara, a territory to the south of the country, has been at the center of a conflict which ...

Brahim Ghali, the leader of Western Sahara’s Polisario Front, claimed on Tuesday that the group’s war against Morocco would continue until it withdrew from its occupied portion of Western Sahara.