(MENAFN) The long-standing conflict over Western Sahara—a resource-rich but sparsely populated desert region—traces its origins to the colonial ... was under Spanish rule from 1958 to 1976 ...

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

Talks to resolve the conflict over Western Sahara should take place on the sole basis of a Moroccan plan that would give the ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday renewed US support for Morocco's sovereignty and political plan for Western Sahara, ...

Boualem Sansal, 80, told a far-right news outlet that colonial ... Western Sahara has angered Algeria. An overview of this territory, which is in dispute between the Sahrawi people and Morocco.

In 2020, Trump angered the Spanish by unilaterally recognising Western Sahara as part of Morocco though large parts of the country are under control of the Polisario Front on the part of the Sahrawis.

Low-cost airlines have opened routes linking Madrid and Paris to Dakhla in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony largely controlled by Morocco but claimed for decades by the Algeria-backed ...

Low-cost airlines have opened routes linking Madrid and Paris to Dakhla in Western Sahara, a former Spanish ... Morocco's proposal that the territory be granted autonomous status under Moroccan rule.