Cutting short his five-year term amid the scarring conflict, he was perhaps a first: an Algerian leader who left without ...

For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s ...

Thirty years after seven French monks were kidnapped and killed in the Atlas mountains at the height of Algeria's civil war, ...

Cairo Egypt July 05 2013: The anti-Morsi protestors with the soldiers on top of the armored vehicles drive through the 6th October Bridge. The Cairo clashes abated, at least temporarily, after a half ...

A member of Iraqi security forces holds an upside-down Islamic State flag on top of a building destroyed from clashes in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq (Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters). Nawzat Shamdeen ...

Algeria announced three days of national mourning on Sunday after the death of 84-year-old Liamine Zeroual, the former ...

Three days of mourning declared for the ex-leader who steered the country through civil war and launched its first ...

The Catholic Church on Saturday beatified in Algeria seven French monks and 12 other clergy killed during the countrys civil war, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. Jean-Paul Vesco, ...

If there’s one thing last week’s attack on the Algerian gas facility should tell us, it’s that the “war on terror” isn’t all that different from the “war on drugs”. Throwing money at a problem and ...