The Empire’s Hidden Hand: How The US Benefits From Morocco’s Occupation of Western Sahara

One day after top US and Moroccan military commanders met, Morocco shattered a decades-old ceasefire against the Sahrawi resistance group known as the POLISARIO front.. Amid the fighting, then-President Trump announced normalization between Israel and Morocco. Behind The Headline’s Dan Cohen explores the US-Morocco relationship and the Sahrawi struggle for independence in the new Cold War.