Significant1975 – 1979 · 4 years

Polisario-Mauritanian War

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Nouakchott · Zouerate · Tiris al-Gharbiya

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Polisario campaign against Mauritanian-occupied southern Western Sahara, ending with the Mauritanian withdrawal after the 1978 coup.

Belligerents2

Mauritania
Polisario Front

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Polisario-Mauritanian War (1975 – 1979). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/polisario-mauritanian-war · Sources & methodology