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

In recent years, various countries have backed Morocco's position, including the United States, Spain, France, Germany and ...

Britain's foreign minister, David Lammy, said on Sunday that the UK considers Morocco's autonomy proposal as the most ...

The United Kingdom is shifting its stance on the disputed Western Sahara, backing Morocco's plan to offer its people limited ...

Western Sahara is claimed both by the Polisario Front—a rebel group that the UN recognizes as the legitimate representative of the region’s inhabitants—and by its northern neighbor, Morocco, which ...

After a decades-long cease-fire crumbled in 2020, Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have resumed fighting over the disputed Western Sahara. Tensions are again rising over Western ...

Morocco and the Polisario Front guerrilla movement have accepted Sept. 6 as the date for a permanent cease-fire after more than 15 years of conflict over the Western Sahara, the United Nations ...

Ambassador Mouloud Said, the representative of Western Sahara in Washington, disputed Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over the territory ... claimed by the Polisario Front, a national liberation ...

The group fighting for Western Sahara’s independence warned it may ramp up military attacks as Morocco looks to ... opposed by the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, which resumed a low-level ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — France has thrown its support behind Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara ... with the pro-independence Polisario Front over the region that the ...

Commentary and archival information about Polisario Front ... on travels through the Middle East and North Africa over ... The 45-year-old fight between Morocco and separatists in Western Sahara ...

Morocco annexed the Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, in 1975, sparking a conflict with the pro-independence Polisario Front ... Disagreements over who is eligible to vote prevented ...