(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades ...

The Sahara Desert is being bettered by torrential rain in highly unusual weather conditions for the area. The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, with one of the harshest climates. The ...

'143 Sahara Street,' Algerian filmmaker Hassen Ferhani's documentary about an elderly woman who runs a Saharan truck stop alone, premiered in Locarno before bowing in the TIFF Wavelengths program.

It was the second night of the 17th edition of FiSahara, the Western Sahara International Film Festival, held on Oct. 11-16 in the Auserd refugee camp in Algeria’s westernmost province of ...

The dunes are frequently filmed in movies to represent the Sahara, including 1999 action film "The Mummy" and 2005 adventure movie "Sahara," among others. Harrison Jacobs/Business Insider ...

A chronicle of three "high-end athletes" who run across the Sahara Desert, a 4300-mile journey that wound through six countries and took 111 days. The runners, Charlie Engle, Ray Zahab and Kevin ...

The Sahara has an area of 9.4 million square kilometers (3.6 million square miles) (ish – it’s actually getting bigger), which means that a good 2.35 million-square-kilometer (900,000-square ...

Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September.

Algeria's Tassili N'Ajjer plateau is Africa's largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world's largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...