8 days ago
Chafiq Mesbah, a former member of Algeria's intelligence service and now a political analyst, said Bouteflika's mini-stroke should mean that Algerians in 2014 will finally get to truly elect a...
68 days ago
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which has sent officers to Algeria, said Monday the investigation is ongoing and that no further information will be given at this time.
75 days ago
Algeria's security forces to protect energy plants
83 days ago
Algeria's army says it made the decision to storm a gas plant where dozens of foreigners were being held hostage without consulting their governments.
83 days ago
There's plenty at stake: Algeria is also one of the continent's richest countries, as the No. 3 supplier of natural gas to Europe, with $190 billion in reserves, up $8 billion in the last year alone.
83 days ago
Terrorist behind Algeria attack is reportedly killed
91 days ago
Terrorist attacks have dropped dramatically in Algeria's populated north in recent years and are largely restricted to a small operations against local forces.
115 days ago
The Jan. 16 attack on Algeria's Ain Amenas gas plant ignited a four-day siege with Algerian forces in which at least 37 hostages and 29 militants were killed.
118 days ago
Algeria's foreign minister acknowledged that security forces made mistakes in a hostage crisis at a Saharan gas plant in which dozens of foreign workers were killed during Algerian military strikes.
121 days ago
Algeria's official information, in contrast, was silent and murky.
123 days ago
Polisario herded nearly 100,000 camel herders and other civilians from the Western Sahara into camps in Algeria and then launched a guerrilla war to seize control of the desert region.
123 days ago
Geoff Porter of North Africa Risk Consulting said the attack had sent shockwaves through the foreign oil and gas companies operating in Algeria and put them into a crisis mode.
123 days ago
Pentagon: AQ ally is top suspect in Algeria attack
123 days ago
Three U.S. citizens were killed in last week's hostage standoff at a natural gas complex in Algeria, while seven Americans made it out safely, Obama administration officials said Monday.
123 days ago
Algeria has identified the kidnappers as members of an al Qaida-affiliated group led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a longtime militant who's described as charismatic, ruthless and stubborn.
124 days ago
"Algeria has taken a strong tack against the terrorists, rejecting offers of help from Britain, the U.S. and other to go it alone in a typical tough and uncompromising response.
124 days ago
Two additional Americans were killed in last week's hostage standoff at a natural gas complex in Algeria, bringing the final U.S. death toll to three, an Obama administration official said Monday.
124 days ago
Algeria said after Saturday's assault by government forces that at least 32 extremists and 23 hostages were killed.
125 days ago
Earlier Sunday, Algeria's chief government spokesman said he feared the toll of hostages - which stood at 23 on Saturday - would rise as the special forces teams finished their search.
125 days ago
Though they are both from southern Algeria, they have chosen to embed themselves in northern Mali, in the immense, ungoverned desert which ranges from feather-soft dunes to flat, rocky plains.
125 days ago
"Today, the thoughts and prayers of the American people are with the families of all those who were killed and injured in the terrorist attack in Algeria," President Barack Obama said in a...
126 days ago
According to Algeria's state news agency, special forces stormed the complex Saturday in a "final assault" to end the four-day-old hostage crisis.
126 days ago
The plant is jointly run by BP, Norway's Statoil and Algeria's state-owned oil company.
126 days ago
Algeria has identified the kidnappers as members of an al Qaida-affiliated group led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a one-eyed longtime militant who is described as charismatic, ruthless and stubborn.
127 days ago
Algeria's government has kept a tight grip on information, but it was clear that the militant assault that began Wednesday has killed at least six people from the factory - and perhaps many more.
