The Western Sahara War (Arabic: حرب الصحراء الغربية, French: Guerre du Sahara, Spanish: Guerra del Sahara Occidental) was an armed struggle between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco between 1975 and 1991, being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara conflict.
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| - The Western Sahara War (Arabic: حرب الصحراء الغربية, French: Guerre du Sahara, Spanish: Guerra del Sahara Occidental) was an armed struggle between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco between 1975 and 1991, being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara conflict.
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| - 2,155 – 2,300 captured
- Mauritania: 2,000 soldiers killed
- Morocco: 7,000 soldiers killed,
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| - Supported by:
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- Polisario Front/SADR
- (1976,Amgala battle, aid from 1976)
- (1977–78,Operation Lamantin, aid from 1978)
- Libya(1975–1984)
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| - Spanish withdrawal under theMadrid Accords(1976); Mauritanian retreat; Polisario Front – Morocco ceasefire (1991)
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| - 5,000 (1976) – 15,000 (1980) – 8,000 (1988)
- Morocco: 30,000 (1976) – 60,000 (1980) – 150,000 (1988) – 120,000 (1991)
- Mauritania: 3,000-5,000 (1976) – 12,000 (1977) – 18,000 (1978)
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