The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), also known as Western Sahara, has ramped up calls on the global community to exert more pressure on the Kingdom ...

Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...

Morocco has occupied Western Sahara since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community.

The desert is where the Earth's coldest temperature ever was recorded and some areas haven't seen rain in more than 14 million years.

I trekked through the Sahara Desert with my in-laws after only meeting them a few times. I was nervous, but it was a fantastic trip.

News about Western Sahara, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The first heat wave of the year is hitting many parts of Western Europe, especially in the U.K. and France, where officials have issued health warnings.

Morocco considers full Syrian recognition of its sovereignty over the Western Sahara key to progress in relations with Damascus.

Veteran whose face came to symbolize Desert Storm meets his fallen comrade’s widow decades after the tragedy that will forever bind them took ...