(New York) – A video that appeared to capture a beating of two Western Sahara activists by the Moroccan police is authentic and should lead to a thorough investigation, Human Rights Watch said today.

A new year brings new Joe Satriani music, as the guitar great has just unleashed the hypnotic new single "Sahara" along with a red-hued video for the track. Get a look and listen in the player toward ...

The fascinating but little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a pleasant green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world. Green Sahara. (Collage by Kuat Abeshev.

The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And we’re not talking about just a few years of ...

A new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Science by Seoul National University’s archeologist Dr. David Wright proposes a new angle for how the Sahara Desert came to be. Most studies prior lay the ...

This footage has been recorded by NASA's Johnson Space Center. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station regularly capture stunning images of our planet, leaving space lovers mesmerized.

Since the Middle Ages, camel caravans have navigated north from the fabled city of Timbuktu, in present-day Mali, West Africa, in search of the gold of the Sahara desert—salt. Traveling across the ...

Whenever Michael Milano first parts the gates at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the 30-year-old from San Francisco heads straight to the Sahara Tent. “One of the most exciting things ...

A recent visit by the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to refugee camps for people displaced by the Western Sahara conflict has stirred up tensions in the 40-year dispute. Here, Newsweek explains ...

Stephen Zunes is an international relations scholar, activist, and professor of politics at the University of San Francisco. Zunes, the author of numerous books and articles, including his latest, ...

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have ...