In a troubling turn of events, Boualem Sansal, an 80-year-old French-Algerian writer, has been sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly undermining Algeria's territorial integrity. This case ...

Algeria protests France's detention of an Algerian consular agent related to a citizen's alleged kidnapping in France, ...

"This is because Algeria's recent history has been built on decolonization, and that narrative of the war against the West allows the country's elites and ordinary citizens to seek culprits and ...

Algeria continues to spark tensions among Sahel countries, especially Mali, which accused Algeria of shooting down a ...

"No pain in history gives a licence to offend France ... a leading specialist in French colonisation and the Algerian war of independence, the current crisis reflects a persistence of the ...

World War II, June 1940. France has fallen and suffers the relentless boot of Nazi Germany. But Algeria, the prized French colony in North Africa, remains part of the territory controlled by the ...

Aussaresses was a central character in an episode of French history which one British historian has described as, "A savage war of peace." Some observers say that Algeria was France's Vietnam.