1. Hey! Take your hands off Tibet
(Opinions/Features)

...m submerging them. But are not the Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria entitled to the same? The inhabitants of Western Sahara, whose territory is occupied by Morocco? The Basques in Spain? The Cors...

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

...nd piercing, domineering looks.”  True enough; after almost seven years (1997-2004) as UN’s special envoy to Western Sahara, the discord there remains intact at the brim.  In our minds, how...

3. 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.

4. Rice on final leg of Maghreb tour
(Archived/News/Arab)

Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, has landed in Morocco on the final leg of her North Africa tour, which included a landmark meeting with Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's leader.

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

8. Moroccans jailed for terror plots
(Archived/News/Arab)

A Moroccan court has convicted 50 radical Islamists of plotting bombings and robberies and jailed them for up to 25 years.

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

...ssadors from each other's countries in a diplomatic row over comments by a Senegalese opposition member about the Western Sahara region....

10. 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.