In a moment that shook the Sahel, Houbbel, a high-ranking militant commander operating under the Islamic State in the Greater ...

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

The report, titled “Why Does Daesh in the Sahel Consider Morocco a Key Target?”, states that terrorist organizations, ...

Arts & Culture | January 2020. Forgotten Desert. A photographer ventures into remote northern Africa for an unprecedented view of one of the world’s most troubled, and least understood, regions ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Extremist attacks in Sahel, an arid swath of land south of the Sahara in Africa, have proliferated in recent months: Last week, Islamic militants attacked Bamako, the capital of ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — Jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin, according to a new report ...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

Saharan dust comes from the Sahara Desert, but that's only one part of the equation. To the south of the Sahara Desert, there is the Sahel region in Africa.