News about Western Sahara, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Indian nationals abducted while Mali’s army and armed groups clash, raising concerns crisis could resonate beyond Sahel.

Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s leader, counts admirers from Nairobi to Jamaica and London. Russia is also courting him.

Syria is formalizing a new chapter in its diplomatic relationship with Morocco, extending traditional ties between the two countries.

As armed groups shift away from direct confrontations with the military, commercial drones are increasingly used to carry out ...

The Polisario now stands at this same precipice of ideological collapse – its failed strategy mirroring the catastrophic ...

In his new biography of the revolutionary psychiatrists life, Adam Shatz asks what Fanon would have made of the 7 October ...

As mercenaries leave Mali, experts say remaining Kremlin-controlled Africa Corps is more than just ‘Wagner rebranded’.

The International Criminal Court is reviewing a confidential legal report asserting that the Russia-linked Wagner group has committed war crimes by spreading images of apparent atrocities in ...

French historian of Algerian origin, Benjamin Stora, revealed some of the secrets he shared with French President Emmanuel Macron over the course of nearly ten years. These exchanges, during which the ...