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

Zhu Guanyu, who served as a military observer for the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara from May 2023 to May 2024, said the Western Sahara region has experienced ...

Squadron Leader Nishadi Pieris has become the first lady officer of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) to be awarded the prestigious United Nations Peacekeepers’ Medal as a Military Observer. The UN ...

Srilanka, May 5 -- A female officer of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) has been awarded the United Nations (UN) Medal as a Military Observer ... the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

of the area between the Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Algeria. “It is true that Sahrawi military units move in this area, but there are also civilians travelling or transporting goods.

After a decades-long cease-fire crumbled in 2020, Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have resumed fighting over the disputed Western Sahara ... political and military force that ...

The group fighting for Western Sahara’s independence warned it may ramp up military attacks as Morocco looks to consolidate control of the disputed territory after securing US and French backing.

But the people did not want to be subjugated under Spanish rule, so it was 50 years before Spain, with the help of France, gained military control over the area. In the 1940s, it was discovered that ...