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 ...

Home; Politics; the explainer The 50-year battle for Western Sahara. UK is latest country to back Moroccan plan to end decades-long dispute with Algerian-backed Polisario Front ...

British foreign minister David Lammy said on Sunday that Morocco's autonomy plan for the territory of Western Sahara was the "most credible" solution to the decades-long dispute, reversing London's ...

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 ...

The UN recognises neither Morocco’s nor the Polisario Front’s claims on Western Sahara, which Morocco took over in a 1975 agreement with Spain and Mauritania. Immigration accord ...

Three years later, the POLISARIO FRONT — a national liberation movement — was formed and took up the armed struggle for independence. On May 20, 1973, the POLISARIO carried out its first attack by ...

The separatist Polisario Front has escalated its destabilizing tactics by issuing direct military threats against Mauritania over the country’s plans to open a new commercial border crossing ...

In 1975, the Polisario Front relocated its headquarters to the town of Tindouf in Algeria, which has since provided the group with military aid and allowed it to operate out of Algerian territory.

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 ...

The assault, attributed to armed factions of the Polisario Front, launched at least four projectiles near the site of the ceremony in the Assa-Zag region, though no civilian casualties were reported.

The UN’s special envoy to the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, is in a fix. His proposal to the Western Sahara impasse – creating a Sahrawi state in place of the Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab region – has been ...

Staffan de Mistura, U.N. envoy to Western Sahara, revealed his idea of carving up the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front during a closed briefing for the U.N ...