Morocco announced it would reopen its embassy in Syria, marking a new phase in relations between Rabat and Damascus, ...

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

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.

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...

Discrimination, Aurore Bergé, reaffirmed France’s unwavering position on Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces in ...

Panama renewed its support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan as a serious, credible, and realistic basis to resolve the Western ...

The UK has backed Morocco's plan for ending a territorial conflict in Western Sahara, as part of a deal that will secure lucrative investment projects in the 2030 men's football World Cup. For decades ...

France now views the contested Western Sahara territory as part of Morocco. The change has little to do with reviving the peace process. The post The U.S., France and Spain Are Deluding Themselves ...

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 ...

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, and Morocco swooped in to claim the territory as its own. Some of the indigenous Sahrawi population rebelled against their new rulers ...

After three years of tensions provoked by an increasingly offensive, even aggressive Morocco – a consequence of the recognition of the "Moroccan sovereignty" of Western Sahara in December 2020 ...