Riccardo Fabiani, north Africa director at the International Crisis Group, said the decision in June was “pretty bad” for ...

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

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.

Algerian and Polisario media ... Algerian media claimed «dozens of Moroccan soldiers had announced their rebellion and desertion from the army, seeking refuge in Western Sahara to escape the ...

ALGIERS, Algeria — Ten suspected Islamists and three soldiers were killed in a fierce gunbattle in the Sahara Desert when a convoy of heavily armed militants was attacked by the ...

MOROCCAN SOLDIERS are seen on an earth wall that separates areas controlled by Morocco and the Polisario ... against the Algerian-backed Polisario Front independence ... Western Sahara is Moroccan.

A French journalist is facing seven years in prison in Algeria over an interview with a soccer official accused of ties to a ...