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.

Moroccan Soldier Describes Decades of Imprisonment Lt. Ali Jaouhar, a former soldier in the Moroccan Army, was held as a prisoner of war in the western Sahara for 23 years.

A Polisario soldier explains that there are significant differences between Moroccan and Sahrawi soldiers: “The soldiers from Western Sahara know the country, and we fight for the freedom of our ...

Polisario Front soldiers during a shooting exercise, near Mehaires, Western Sahara, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. For nearly 30 years, the vast territory of Western Sahara in the North African desert ...

For nearly three decades, a few hundred United Nations soldiers have ensured that this 1,700-mile cease-fire line, which separates Moroccan soldiers from an outgunned group of Western Sahara ...

They are former soldiers, or the children of former soldiers, from one of the world’s forgotten conflicts: ... The U.N. has had a peacekeeping force in Western Sahara since 1991, ...

Like other Sahrawi settlements in the 20 percent of Western Sahara controlled by the Polisario, ... “The soldiers’ faces were blank, there was no fear,” says Taleb-Omar.

Simon Brann Thorpe’s images are strange and startling. The photographer takes real soldiers and poses them as plastic army men in the desert of Western Sahara. *Toy Soldiers *is a unique look at ...

Polisario fighters tell The Telegraph they want to take conflict out of ‘first gear’ if world does not rally to independence cause ...

"The soldiers from Western Sahara know the country, and we fight for the freedom of our people. Moroccan soldiers, on the other hand, have not chosen to fight but have been forced to do so as part ...