Millions of voters elected an Islamic political party to run the country, but the military stepped in, forced out the winners of the election and handpicked a group of politicians in their place. No, ...

Rule of law scarcely discourages the endless reprisals in Rachid Bouchareb’s Algerian War–era family-ties drama Outside the Law, which shows the FLN’s militant campaign for Algerian independence, as ...

ALGIERS — Algeria's government proposed a law to streamline military mobilization amid tensions with neighboring countries Morocco and Mali, as well as former colonial ruler France. The text, set to ...

PARIS, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Nearly 50 years after Algeria won independence from France, the unhealed wounds of the war of decolonisation keep wrenching at French society and could play a key role in the ...

Dana: The war became a defining political issue, and everyone took sides. Thousands of people marched through the streets of Paris, both against and in favor of French rule in Algeria. And there was ...

One day after Islamic militants invaded an Algerian gas field and seized dozens of Western workers, there are fears that several of the foreign hostages might be dead—potentially escalating the ...

On April 4, the UN Human Rights Council unanimously and without a vote supported a resolution calling on countries to comply with the 1997 treaty banning the use of mines, to protect and ensure human ...

Algeria's judiciary has refused to provisionally release a well-known independence war veteran detained for allegedly insulting the army, his lawyers said. The arrest of Algerian war veteran Lakhdar ...

Algerian authorities have arrested a well-known veteran of the war of independence against France, his grandson and media outlets said Sunday, after he reportedly criticised military chief Ahmed Gaid ...