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The Western Sahara conflict is an ongoing conflict between the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic/Polisario Front and the Kingdom of Morocco.The conflict originated from an insurgency by the Polisario Front against Spanish colonial forces from 1973 to 1975 and the subsequent Western Sahara War against Morocco between 1975 and 1991.
In response to the "attacks by Morocco" in Western Sahara, the Polisario considered it their right to attack Moroccan territory. [9] The Battle of Tan-Tan, which involved 1,700 combatants and 200 vehicles belonging to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, proved to be a significant political victory for the Polisario Front. [10]
The Western Sahara War (Arabic: حرب الصحراء الغربية, French: Guerre du Sahara occidental, Spanish: Guerra del Sáhara Occidental) was an armed conflict between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco from 1975 to 1991 (and Mauritania from 1975 to 1979), being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara conflict.
Selected pictures 6 Portal:Western Sahara/Selected pictures/6 Isidro López-Aparicio performing the piece: isolation in the Western Sahara desert ( Tifariti ), denouncing the isolation suffered by the Sahrawi people in the refugee camps of Tindouf since 1975.
The Western Sahara conflict is an ongoing conflict between the Polisario Front of the Sahrawi people and the state of Morocco.The conflict is the continuation of the past insurgency by Polisario against the Spanish colonial forces in 1973–1975 and the subsequent Western Sahara War between the Polisario and Morocco (1975–1991).
A war erupted between Morocco and the Sahrawi Polisario Front, which proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) with a government-in-exile in Tindouf, Algeria. Mauritania withdrew in 1979, and Morocco eventually secured control of most of the territory, including all the major cities and natural resources. Armed conflict continued ...
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results; Western Sahara War (1975–1992) SADR Support: Algeria Libya Morocco Mauritania (1975–1979) Support: France (1978) Inconclusive: Western Saharan clashes (2020–present) (2020–) SADR Morocco: Ongoing
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: On 16 November, SADR's minister of foreign affairs Mohamed Salem Ould Salek stated that the end of the war was now linked to the "end of the illegal occupation of parts of the territory of the Sahrawi Republic", and that the war had started as a "consequence of Morocco's aggression and action in Guerguerat".