The recent rocket attack on the southern Moroccan city of Smara has reignited concerns over the use of outdated, ...

Drone kills Polisario Front commander, 3 fighters in Western Sahara. The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for North Africa visited Sahrawi territory in a bid to relaunch a UN-sponsored peace process.

In April 2021, another Sahrawi military leader, the commander of the gendarmerie Addah Al-Bendir, was killed by a drone in Tifariti, a northern region under Polisario control. Rabat controls nearly 80 ...

In October 2013, Mohamed Abdelaziz appointed his son Lahbib as commander of a gendarmerie unit, considered the Polisario's elite forces, equipped with more resources than other militias.

(MENAFN- Morocco World News) Rabat – Spanish infantry commander and a former veteran of the Western Sahara guerilla, Iglesias Coto, has openly condemned the Algerian-backed Polisario Front's ...

Fighting between Moroccan military forces and the Polisario Front ... Commander of the Southern Zone of Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces, which includes occupied Western Sahara.

Abwa Ali, a commander within the Polisario who regularly leads attacks against Moroccan bases along the berm, said that he had personally seen missile fragments with Hebrew lettering on them.

Simon Brann Thorpe: I met the commander through the Polisario representatives in London and through contacts in the refugee camps made during my first visit there in 2004.He’s a refugee like all ...

Morocco annexed the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara in 1976, sparking a decades-long battle for independence by the Polisario Front group, which ended with a U.N.-brokered 1991 cease-fire.

In April, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., vowed to introduce legislation designating the Algeria-backed Polisario Front as a terrorist organization.In doing so, he set a litmus test for Washington’s ...

News about Polisario Front. Commentary and archival information about Polisario Front from The New York Times.

News about Polisario Front. Commentary and archival information about Polisario Front from The New York Times.