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Battle of Amgala (1976)

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Amgala

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Brief but consequential clash between Moroccan and Algerian regular forces inside Western Sahara at the war's outset.

Belligerents3

Morocco
Algeria
Polisario Front

Conflict graph

PART OFWestern Sahara Conflict

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Amgala (1976) (1976). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-amgala-1976 · Sources & methodology