Algeria

Algeria: president is recovering in France

7 days ago

Tuesday's official statement said President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is "consolidating his favorable progress" under therapy since being flown to France following a stroke in Algeria on April 27.

Algeria stalled 40 days into president's absence

11 days ago

Forty days after Algeria's president was hospitalized, the country is stuck in limbo with its normally predictable politics thrown into disarray.

Hints of political change on horizon in Algeria

32 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...

Canadian remains found at site of Algeria gas site

92 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.

Algeria's security forces to protect energy plants

99 days ago

Algeria's security forces to protect energy plants

Algeria defends raid that ended hostage standoff

107 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.

Algeria reels from tales of oil sector corruption

107 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.

Terrorist behind Algeria attack is reportedly killed

107 days ago

Terrorist behind Algeria attack is reportedly killed

Official: Algeria kills 12 extremist fighters

115 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.

UK prime minister visits Algeria with MI6 chief

139 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.

AP Interview: Algeria admits mistakes in standoff

143 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.

Algeria militants played shrewd media game

145 days ago

Algeria's official information, in contrast, was silent and murky.

Commentary: Vive La France | Guest columns | Fort Worth, Arlington, Northeast...

147 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.

Algeria scours Sahara for 5 missing foreigners

147 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.

Pentagon: AQ ally is top suspect in Algeria attack

147 days ago

Pentagon: AQ ally is top suspect in Algeria attack

3 Americans die in Algeria attack, 7 survive

148 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.

Algeria's prime minister describes militant attack, defends intervention

148 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.

Algeria attacks pose fresh security issues

148 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.

US official: 2 more Americans die in Algeria

148 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.

After siege in Algeria, death toll at 81

148 days ago

Algeria said after Saturday's assault by government forces that at least 32 extremists and 23 hostages were killed.

Official: 'Numerous' other bodies at Algeria plant

149 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.

Algeria terror leader preferred money to death

149 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.

Final toll of Algeria gas plant drama: 23 hostages dead, 107 safe, 32 terrorists...

150 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...

US, UK defense chiefs bemoan deaths in Algeria

150 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.

Algeria: 7 hostages, 11 militants dead after raid

150 days ago

The plant is jointly run by BP, Norway's Statoil and Algeria's state-owned oil company.

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