We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

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

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria ...

So, what is the current state of affairs? Beisat said that since November 2020 when Morocco again attacked Western Sahara, seizing more lands, hostilities between the two armies have resumed. He ...

A recent report by the Migration Research Institute identifies Morocco as “the most stable country in the entire Maghreb” and ...

Morocco and Mauritania occupied the main towns and oases of Western Sahara, and the POLISARIO's tactics were to attack these fortifications and attack enemy transports. A key target was the phosphate ...

Western Sahara was an overseas Spanish colony from the 1880s until the mid-1970s. Mauritania and Morocco both laid claim to the territory after Spain withdrew, partitioning it between them.

"Hop on board the 'Backbone of the Sahara' with filmmaker Macgregor for an incredible journey through the stunning Western ...

Mauritania withdrew from the ensuing conflict in 1979, but the other two parties continued to fight. ... Morocco controlled about two-thirds of Western Sahara and all its coastline; ...

1979 - Mauritania gives up its claims to Western Sahara. 1981 - Mauritania becomes the last country in the world to outlaw slavery. 1989-91 - Mauritania-Senegal Border War.

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

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 ...