1. Baker's Iraq Study Group
(Editor/Editorial)

...pered by just as many resounding defeats.  I recall what a friend, a Spanish attorney then advising the Polisario Front in its struggle for independence from Morocco, told me three years ago.&nbs...

2. Algeria blamed for Polisario rally
(Archived/News/Arab)

Morocco's government has accused Algeria of allowing hundreds of Polisario Front supporters to cross over the border into the country, in violation of an 18-year ceasefire deal.

3. Free W Sahara called 'unrealistic'
(Archived/News/Arab)

The UN mediator in talks on Western Sahara between Morocco and the Polisario Front, an Algeria-backed separatist movement, has said independence for the disputed territory is unrealistic.

4. Western Sahara talks end in failure
(Archived/News/Arab)

Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have ended a fourth round of talks on Western Sahara with no substantial progress achieved, trading blame for the deadlock.

5. New round of W Sahara talks begins
(Archived/News/Arab)

Moroccan officials are meeting the pro-independence Polisario Front in suburban New York for a third set of UN-sponsored talks over the disputed Western Sahara.

6. Dakar and Rabat row over W Sahara
(Archived/News/Arab)

Senegal and Morocco have recalled their respective ambassadors from each other's countries in a diplomatic row over comments by a Senegalese opposition member about the Western Sahara region.

7. Polisario threatens return to arms
(Archived/News/Arab)

The Polisario Front, pushing for independence for Western Sahara from Morocco, has threatened a return to violence if negotiations over the disputed region fail, according to an Algerian news report.

8. Morocco protests Polisario meeting
(Archived/News/Arab)

Morocco has urged the UN to stop leaders of Western Sahara's independence movement Polisario from holding a congress at which they will propose preparing to resume war with Morocco.

9. Morocco and Polisario in new talks
(Archived/News/Arab)

Morocco and the Polisario Front are meeting for a second round of UN-brokered talks in New York to try to resolve their 32-year dispute over Western Sahara.

10. UN amends Western Sahra report
(Archived/News/Arab)

...as admitted that a report on the disputed Western Sahara region, a long-standing row between Morocco and the Polisario Front, was biased in favour of Morocco. ...