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The Polisario has added to its long record of terrorist acts a new attack near Smara. The separatist group claimed responsibility for firing projectiles aimed at civilians and landed near a UN peacekeeping mission team’s site. While the projectiles attack left no casualties or injuries, it highlights the terrorist threat posed by the Polisario and […]
U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson has introduced the legislation designating the Algeria-backed Polisario militias as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, hammering all supporters of the separatist group. “The Polisario is a Marxist militia backed by Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia providing Iran a strategic outpost in Africa and destabilizing the Kingdom of Morocco, a U.S. ally for 248 […]
The Polisario-run Tindouf camps have become a “breeding ground” for the recruitment of jihadists in full connivance of Algerian regime, said a recent analysis published on the National Interest, a leading US media focusing on geopolitics. The op-ed by, Ahmed Sharawi, notes how Algeria perpetuated the conflict over the Sahara territory and abandoned its sovereignty […]
Several hardline members of the Algeria-backed separatist group have joined jihadist groups operating in the Sahel region, according to a Spanish intelligence report cited by La Vanguardia newspaper. Radicalized polisario operatives are now holding senior positions within terror networks active in the Sahel, including al-Qaeda and ISIS branch in West Africa, said the alarming report, […]
Influential Italian Think Tank, Luigi Einaudi, urged the Italian government to take a position in favor of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara territory and warned of the growing threats to regional stability posed by the Algeria-sponsored Polisario militias. In a detailed analysis, Andrea Cangini, the Think Tank’s Secretary General and former MP, said that Polisario’s […]
Egypt has decided to skip the military exercise which the Algerian regime is planning to organize May 21 to 27 on its territory due to the participation of the Algeria-backed Polisario militias in the drills, according to press reports. Cairo’s refusal to participate in the military maneuvers dealt a hard blow to the Algerian junta […]
Clashes broke out between rival armed gangs in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, after three separatists handed over their arms and defected to Morocco, while Algeria has killed Sahrawi youth prospecting for gold. All of these happened in a single month, as the noose tightens around Algiers and the Polisario proxies to accept Morocco’s autonomy plan […]
After decades of backing separatism in Morocco’s Sahara, Algeria and its Polisario proxies have began a conditioning campaign for the autonomy plan, put forward by Rabat as a final political solution to the conflict over the Sahara. The initiative was first proposed by Morocco in 2007 as an ultimate offer to end the conflict that […]
Former UK defense and trade minister and once member of Parliament Liam Fox added his voice to US congressmen, pundits, regional experts and western think tanks who have recently made the case for designating the Polisario as a terrorist group in view of the militia’s involvement in targeting civilians, violating UN ceasefire and acting in […]
The fall of the bloody authoritarian Assad regime has uncovered the depth of relations between the Algeria-backed Polisario separatist group and Iran, with Syria acting as the intermediary, said a report published by the Washington-based think-tank Atlantic Council. Amid the chaos following the fall of Damascus, documents emerged showing correspondence between the Syrian Ministry of […]