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

Shiite Muslims are commemorating Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave ...

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

New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown walled oases.

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 ...

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati began a visit on Monday to the disputed Western Sahara, where she will meet officials and open a French cultural center in a show of support for Moroccan ...

What is the status of Western Sahara? Sovereignty over Western Sahara, a mostly desert territory on the west coast of Africa, is heavily contested.

A rare deluge of rain has created new lakes in the rolling sand dunes of parts of the Sahara, one of the driest places on Earth.

Small lakes are forming as reservoirs in southeastern Morocco refilled rapidly in Sept. Photo: AP. In a rare and dramatic turn of events, parts of the Sahara Desert witnessed severe flooding after ...

Heavy rainfall in southeastern Morocco has led to flooding in the Sahara Desert near Merzouga, Rachidia. The downpour created lakes, flooding palm trees and oases, and transforming the typically ...