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

Rabat - Liberia and Ecuador have both reaffirmed their strong support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces ...

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, and Morocco swooped in to claim the territory as its own. Some of the indigenous Sahrawi population rebelled against their new rulers ...

France is only the latest state to recognize the Western Sahara region as Moroccan territory. Spain did so in 2022, as did the United States as part of a "quid pro quo" for Rabat's normalization ...

Additionally, Iran has reportedly supplied arms to the Polisario Front, sparking further concerns that Western Sahara is being used as a proxy by regional powers. The Western Sahara conflict has ...

The Trump administration faces a historic opportunity to resolve the Western Sahara conflict. Centered on a disputed territory along North Africa’s Atlantic seaboard, where Morocco and the ...

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...

Algeria accused France of endangering the broader region with its historic decision to recognize its rival Morocco’s rule over the disputed territory of Western Sahara.. The OPEC member’s ...

CAIRO, July 25 (Reuters) - Algeria expressed “great regret and strong denunciation" on Thursday about the French government's decision to recognize an autonomy plan for the Western Sahara region ...

The European Union’s top court has confirmed an earlier ruling cancelling trade deals that allow Morocco to export fish and farm products to the EU from the disputed Western Sahara region, a ...

Even when Spain controlled Western Sahara, Morocco, which lies just north of it, claimed sovereignty over the region. In 1975, Spain withdrew from the territory and it was annexed by Morocco.