Chahid El-Hafed (Sahrawi Republic) 29 May 2025 (SPS) – Informed Syrian sources refuted claims circulated by the Moroccan state news agency regarding alleged recent closure of Polisario Front’s offices in Damascus by Syrian authorities, clarifying that Polisario office in Syria has, in fact, been closed since 2003, thereby exposing the Moroccan media’s misleading propaganda, which attempted to portray the fake news as a political shift and a diplomatic victory for Morocco.
The Pan African website “Sawt Afrikya”, which covers African affairs, along with the “Al-Quds Al-Arabi” newspaper, reported that former Syrian officials from the “Committee of Arab and Friendly Liberation Movements” confirmed that the Polisario office in Syria had been closed more than two decades ago, specifically after the US invasion of Iraq, when the committee, which included representatives from various Arab liberation movements including the Polisario, was dissolved.
The same sources emphasized that recent Moroccan media reports alleging the participation of "hundreds" of Polisario fighters in the Syrian civil war alongside the former Syrian government, allegedly in coordination with Algeria and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, are "highly exaggerated" and lack any credible evidence. They clarified that the majority of foreign volunteers who took part in the conflict came from a variety of Arab and Muslim countries, and that not a single Sahrawi was among them.
In a related development, sources close to the current Syrian presidency recently denied the existence of any Polisario members detained in Syrian prisons, as claimed by Moroccan media. They described these reports as entirely false, thus debunking yet another wave of fabrications and misinformation spread by Morocco's media apparatus and online propagandists.
It is worth noting that the Moroccan News Agency recently claimed that "Syrian authorities have closed Polisario offices in Damascus" as part of Morocco’s preparations to reopen its embassy in Syria, portraying the supposed action as evidence of "Damascus's respect for Morocco’s territorial integrity." This, however, is a failed attempt to mislead Moroccan public opinion and create the illusion of fictitious diplomatic victories, a pattern the Moroccan Foreign Ministry has long been accused of repeating.
These verified facts from well-informed Syrian sources expose the falsehoods in the Moroccan narrative and confirm that Rabat’s efforts to distort history and manipulate political realities are increasingly transparent to Arab and international public opinion.
They also reflect Morocco’s continued failure to garner international support for its expansionist agenda and its ongoing reliance on disinformation, fabrications, and lies, primarily aimed at its domestic audience and at complicit international media outlets that rarely bother to fact-check or scrutinize the stories fed to them by the Moroccan regime, and may even intentionally reproduce them to serve the occupation’s agenda. (SPS)
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