Shortly afterwards, armed clashes with Morocco's army began. Almost 50 years later, Morocco's de facto rule over Western Sahara has not yet been recognized under international law.

Polisario Front, Western Sahara rebel group fighting 30-year war for independence, announces release of 243 Moroccan prisoners after renewed request by Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar; United ...

Up until 1976, Western Sahara was a Spanish colony. However, when Spain began to vacate its positions, Morocco had already occupied first the northern, then the southern part of Western Sahara.

This massive mudbrick structure on the edge of the Sahara has starred ... bombardment during the Spanish-American War. Since 1962, El Morro and nearby Castillo San Cristóbal (the largest fort ...

Long at war with Morocco, the Western Sahara-based group has reportedly received drones and training from Iran and Hezbollah.The post House bill aims to impose sanctions on Iran-aligned Polisario Fron ...

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

There are few places as desolate as the camps of the Polisario Front in western Algeria. Over the years, infrastructure has been built to accommodate the tens of thousands of Saharawi refugees who ...

He described Morocco’s colonial adventure in Western Sahara as “very costly”, adding that the Kingdom loses from 3.5% to 4% of its GDP annually, as well as enormous expenses on military ...

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), also known as Western Sahara, has ramped up calls on the global community to exert more pressure on the Kingdom ...

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...

Ghana endorsed Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara, abandoning its long-held support for Sahrawi sovereignty. Now Ghana is aligned with Morocco's expanding economic and diplomatic maneuver ...