Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony claimed by Morocco, ... The Moroccan Army is pushing ever farther into the desert the Great Wall of the Sahara, now more than 400 miles long.

The Spanish government has clarified its position on the Sahara issue for the military. The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a note outlining the guidelines to be followed by all ...

In a little-known 1957 conflict, Moroccos Liberation Army staged a bold offensive against Spanish colonial rule in Ifni and Western Sahara, capturing key territories and besieging Spanish ...

Spanish society is well aware of their government’s responsibility toward Western Sahara. Few expected that, 47 years after its first betrayal, Spain would cede the territory to Morocco once again.

But as European colonialism began to divide Africa between them, several countries tried to colonize Western Sahara, but faced strong resistance from the population. At the Berlin Conference in 1884, ...

Western Sahara is a mineral-rich former Spanish colony that Morocco marched into and occupied when Spain withdrew in 1975, leaving a power vacuum. Local Saharawi people have long campaigned for ...

Soldiers from the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army parade at a ceremony marking 40 years since the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic was declared in 1976 in the disputed territory of Western Sahara ...

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then it has been the ...

MADRID- Spain's High Court on Tuesday turned down a request for Western Sahara independence leader Brahim Ghali to be taken into custody, saying the plaintiffs in a war crimes case against him had ...

The Moroccan army has come under attack in the Western Sahara, a disputed territory it occupies since 1975. They are involved in skirmishes against the armed wing of the Polisario Front, the land ...

1934 - Becomes a Spanish province known as Spanish Sahara. 1957 - Newly-independent Morocco lays centuries-old claim to Western Sahara. 1965 - The UN calls for the decolonisation of Western Sahara.