Protestors hold Western Sahara flags in Bordeaux, France, on Dec. 12. (Thibaud Moritz/AFP/Getty Images) The Dec. 11 news article “In U.S.-backed deal, Morocco to normalize ties with Israel ...

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.

I first went to the Western Sahara in 2008 for the Sahara International Film Festival, the only one of its kind to take place in a refugee camp. I went there knowing only a little about the ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — France has thrown its support behind Morocco's autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-old position and adding itself to a growing list of ...

A Saharawi man holds up a Polisario Front flag in the Al-Mahbes area near Moroccan soldiers guarding the wall separating the Polisario controlled Western Sahara from Morocco on February 3, 2017.

Western Sahara is a mineral-rich former Spanish colony that Morocco marched into and occupied when Spain withdrew in 1975, leaving a power vacuum. Local Saharawi people have long campaigned for ...

Morocco laid claim to Western Sahara after Spain abandoned its control of the territory in 1975. Morocco has since exercised de facto sovereignty over the territory, although few countries have ...

In Western Sahara, too, while traditional gender roles have freed women to push for independence, those norms also often mean that they do not pursue careers. Advertisement “It’s about the ...

When two Moroccan truck drivers were killed crossing the Sahara earlier this year, jihadists were blamed. But Western diplomats suspect Algeria, trying to thwart Morocco’s push south, played a role.

The flag of Western Sahara is displayed during a march outside the Moroccan embassy in Madrid, Spain. EPA-EFE/LUCA PIERGIOVANNI In 1975 Spain abandoned its colonies in North Africa, with the exception ...

Those historical arguments seem increasingly irrelevant. By the time the two sides agreed a ceasefire, in 1991, Morocco controlled about two-thirds of Western Sahara and all its coastline; it now ...