United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon, left, arrives for a meeting with the Polisario Front's representative at the U.N. in Bir-Lahlou, in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, March 5.

The Polisario Front, Western Sahara's independence movement, on Sunday said it was severing ties with Spain after Madrid backed Morocco's plan giving autonomy to the former Spanish colony.

Saharan Rebel Peace Move. The Polisario Front, a rebel group fighting for the independence of Western Sahara, said today that it had handed over 185 Moroccan prisoners of war to the Red Cross.

Brahim Ghali, leader of the independentist Polisario Front, in the north-east of Western Sahara on January 6, 2019 in Mehaires, Western Sahara. Stefano Montesi/Corbis/Getty Images CNN — ...

Salmi Gailani was born in 1991, the year that Morocco agreed to a ceasefire with the rebels of the Polisario Front after almost two decades of warfare in Western Sahara. Despite the peace, Gailani ...

An independent Western Sahara run by the Polisario Front would likely turn into another source of regional insecurity. Y ou would be forgiven for forgetting Western Sahara, a territory on the west ...

PARIS (AP) — The head of the Polisario Front movement that seeks independence for the disputed Western Sahara says the group's representative to the United Nations has died after a long illness.

Morocco Western Sahara United Nations Polisario Front North Africa Algeria Antonio Guterres Trump United States Spain Staffan de Mistura Covid Europe European Union Rabat Madrid Biden. Most Popular.

The leader of the Western Sahara’s independence movement has vowed to end a 29-year-old ceasefire with Morocco, citing recent Moroccan border operations as a provocation. Brahim Ghali, leader of ...

Commentary and archival information about Polisario Front from The New York Times. ... The 45-year-old fight between Morocco and separatists in Western Sahara threatens to return to outright war.

MADRID (Reuters) – The Polisario Front, Western Sahara’s independence movement, on Sunday said it was severing ties with Spain after Madrid backed Morocco’s plan giving autonomy to the ...