“Labès?” (‘OK?”) asks Baba Atanof as a tourist struggles to get her leg over a large rock on a steep ascent in the Algerian Sahara Desert. Fighting jelly legs and vertigo, she can barely answer. This ...

I’ve been to friendly places before, where people are kind and the tradition of hospitality is so beautiful it breaks your heart. But I’ve never experienced anything like Algeria. We stood on the side ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rachid Bouchareb’s upcoming feature film Reggane, exploring France’s controversial nuclear tests in Algeria’s ...

The arid region sometimes develops lakes after heavy rain, hinting at how the desert may have once had a different climate. Reading time 2 minutes Behold Sebkha el Melah, an ephemeral lake in Algeria, ...

Across the vast stretches of the Algerian Sahara, we are not lacking land, sunlight, or ancestral knowledge. What we lack is a bold and rooted vision—one that reconciles humans with the land, the ...

DJANET, Algeria — In one hand, the dancers hold swords symbolizing battle. In the other, a piece of cloth symbolizing peace. They dance a shuffling “step-step” to the beat of drums and chanting from ...

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) built the “Rose Garden for the Martyrs of July 15” with 1000 roses in the town of El Goléa (MENIA), located in the Sahara Desert in Algeria. Turkish ...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - A joint command headquarters created to coordinate anti-al Qaeda operations in the Sahara desert will triple the troops at its disposal to 75,000 within two years, Algerian state ...

1:00 p.m.: The White House says it strongly condemns the attack, but cannot confirm that it is linked to al Qaeda. Still much confusion and uncertainty. 12:55 p.m.: Updates from the BBC: French ...

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