What is Western Sahara? Roughly the size of the U.S. state of Colorado, Western Sahara is a region on North Africa's Atlantic coast bordering Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania.

MINURSO (the U.N. mission for the Western Sahara) observers take note of a Moroccan drone strike on ... More a civilian vehicle on January 1st, 2024. The Moroccan army has come under attack in the ...

Tensions are rising in Western Sahara, a large strip of desert stretching along the Atlantic coast north of Mauritania. Formerly a Spanish colony, the area has been claimed for the past half ...

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

Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to claim the land.

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 ...

The Western Sahara neighbors Mauritania and Algeria are both at the center of the West's fight against terrorism in the deserts of north Africa.

We’re also at the anniversary of the accords whereby Madrid agreed to hand over Western Sahara to Mauritania and Morocco in 1975. So it’s a very strange situation we’re in right now with ...

This photograph of cloud bands over southern Mauritania was taken from the International Space Station with an oblique angle such that the cloud shadows are a prominent part of the view. Beneath ...

The former Spanish colony was divided in 1975 between Mauritania and Morocco. ... News about Western Sahara, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The former Spanish colony was divided in 1975 between Mauritania and Morocco. ... News about Western Sahara, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.