Attack on Tichla | |||||||||
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Part of Western Sahara War | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Polisario | Mauritania | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Mohamed Abdelaziz | Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Unknown |
90 to 150 73 prisoners |
The Attack on Tichla took place on July 12, 1979, in the town of Tichla, in Western Sahara. It marked the final engagement between Mauritania and Polisario before the peace treaty in Algiers and Mauritania's withdrawal from the Western Sahara War.