We are dazzled by its vistas but fail to notice it as one of the great ... A waterless sea of sand and stone, where scorpions infest, vipers slither, and the sun has no mercy. Libya is big ...

Libyan military officials said Monday they apprehended hundreds of migrants traversing the country's vast desert hoping to ultimately cross the Mediterranean Sea in pursuit of a better life in Europe.

A giant patch of black, fossilized lava that was spewed across the Sahara desert over millions of years ... (44,000 square kilometers) in central Libya and contains roughly 150 extinct volcanoes ...

To provide fresh water to its population, Libya built the Great Man ... by relentless desert, the majority of the population lives in coastal cities along the Mediterranean Sea, where the climate ...