For centuries, the Rub' al-Khali desert near Saudi Arabia and Dubai — known as the Empty Quarter — was dismissed as a lifeless sea of sand. But now, it's revealing an astonishing secret.

07:00, Sun, May 25, 2025 Once thought to be a never-ending stretch of sand, the Rub' al-Khali in the Middle East has revealed an incredible secret. 23 years ago, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al ...

The Rub' al-Khali desert was thought to be an endless sea of sand, but one 1998 discovery has shed light on a 5,000-year-old ...

The Israeli military has been altering commercial drones to carry bombs and surveil people in Gaza, an investigation by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification agency has found. According to Sanad ...

The total distance is estimated at 1,266km. Pilgrims from the Sultanate of Oman use the Rub' al Khali road to reach Mecca. On Saudi Arabia’s northern border, pilgrims from Jordan also follow two ...

It passes through the Rub' al Khali, also known as the "Empty Quarter", a vast, otherworldly desert that stretches across much of the Arabian Peninsula. There are no bends, no turns - just ...

In 2024, a team of researchers from Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa University developed an A.I. algorithm that could survey the Rub al-Khali, a 250,000 square mile dessert on the Arabian Peninsula ...

and scheduled flights were canceled," two days after the military base there was attacked by drones. The civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid ...

ALBAWABA - A drone strike struck the airport of Port Sudan, the seat of the Sudanese army-aligned government on the Red Sea coast, on Sunday, an airport official told AFP. According to the ...