'''Tifariti''' (Berber: '''Tifariti''', ) is an oasis town located in north-eastern Western Sahara, east of the Moroccan Berm,  from Smara and  north of the border with Mauritania. It is part of what Polisario Front calls the ''Liberated Territories'' and  Morocco call the ''Buffer Zone''. It has been the ''de facto'' temporary capital of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic since the government moved there in 2008 from Bir Lehlou. It is the headquarters of the 2nd military region of the SADR.