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The Sand War (Arabic: حَرْبُ الرِّمَال, romanized: Ḥarb ar-Rimāl) was a border conflict between Algeria and Morocco fought from September 25 to October 30, 1963, although a formal peace treaty was not signed until February 20, 1964.
Morocco Algeria: Tuareg insurgents: Victory. Rebellion suppressed; Unknown: Sand War (1963) Morocco Support: France: Algeria Support: Cuba [15] United Arab Republic: Stalemate. The closing of the border south of Figuig; Demilitarized zone established; 39 killed, 57 captured or 200 killed [16] October War (1973) Federation of Arab Republics ...
Relations between Morocco and Algeria have been marred by several crises since their independence, particularly the 1963 Sand War, the Western Sahara War of 1975–1991, the closing of the Algeria–Morocco border in 1994, an ongoing disagreement over the political status of Western Sahara and the signing of the Israel–Morocco normalization agreement (as part of the Abraham Accords) in 2020.
Result for Algeria and its Allies Sand War (1963–1964) Part of the Algeria-European War Location: Algeria Border Algeria and Morocco: Algeria Egypt [26] Cuba [27] Morocco Support: France [28] Inconclusive. The closing of the border south of Figuig, Morocco/Béni Ounif, Algeria. Morocco abandoned its intentions to control Béchar and Tindouf ...
Algerian War (1954 –1962) Nationalism ... Algeria in 1824 alongside Alaouite Morocco before the French colonisation. ... On 8 September 1963, the first Algerian ...
The Sand War began when troops from Morocco invaded Algeria and seized control of two oases that had served as border stations on the road to Tindouf.Algeria retook the oases a week later, but Morocco took them back the week after that, and then expand its control of territory in western Algeria until a peace treaty could be brokered.
The uncertainty over much of the border alignment, and Morocco's claims for a so-called 'Greater Morocco' encompassing much of north-west Africa, led to the Sand War of 1963. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] Various agreements were signed in 1969-70 aiming to provide a peaceful resolution of the dispute, which resulted in the treaty of 15 June 1972 which demarcated ...
Relations between the two North African states have been marred by several crises since their independence, particularly the 1963 Sand War, the Western Sahara War of 1975–1991, the closing of the Algeria–Morocco border in 1994, an ongoing disagreement over the political status of Western Sahara and the signing of the Israel–Morocco ...