Moroccan authorities expelled three Spanish nationals from Laayoune on Tuesday, citing their involvement in political activities supporting the separatist Polisario Front and threatening Morocco’s ...

Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal is facing five years in prison in Algeria after he lost an appeal against his ...

Michael Doran, director of Hudson’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, will host Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) ...

US Republican Senator Joe Wilson announced on Thursday (26 June), the introduction of a bill to the US Congress aimed at designating the Polisario Front as a terrorist organisation. Wilson, a member ...

An independent Western Sahara run by the Polisario Front would likely turn into another source of regional insecurity.

The Polisario Front has started to take on Morocco more aggressively in legal forums, challenging its right to exploit Western Sahara’s resources, and Morocco and its neighbor Algeria—a key backer of ...

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

A mineral-rich swathe of Atlantic coastline and desert that’s larger than the UK, Western Sahara has been bitterly contested since its annexation by Morocco in 1975, when former colonial ruler Spain ...

These recent assaults come after the Polisario Front unilaterally declared the end of a 1991 ceasefire with Morocco, escalating tensions in the region.