Algerian editor accuses government of censorship
An editor has accused Algeria's government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers. Hicham Aboud, editor of the My ...

Hints of political change on horizon in Algeria
The Arab Spring may finally be en route to Algeria. With the president in a French hospital recovering from a stroke, the generation of aging ...
Mini-stroke could limit Algeria president ambition
The mini-stroke suffered by Algeria's president has cast fresh doubt on his perceived ambition to run for a fourth term next year as leader of one of ...
Report: Algeria's president has mini-stroke
Algeria's president was hospitalized Saturday after having a mini-stroke without serious complications, the state news agency said.

Algeria's southern unemployed demand oil jobs
Protests by the unemployed in southern Algeria are raising the specter of rising unrest in the country's sensitive oil regions, and are increasingly ...
Algeria's security forces to protect energy plants
An Algerian official says that the country's security forces will take over the job of securing the country's oil and gas sites following a ...

Algeria reels from tales of oil sector corruption
Corrupt and gorging itself at the trough of Algeria's vast oil wealth — that's how most Algerians privately view the elites running the country.
Algerian gas plant in terror siege resumes work
A gas installation in Algeria that was the site of a terrorist attack last month that left 37 hostages dead partially resumed production Sunday, as ...
Official: Algeria kills 12 extremist fighters
An Algerian government official says security forces have killed a dozen extremist fighters in northern areas outside the capital and uncovered an ...
Algerian border forces get shoot-on-sight orders
A high-ranking Algerian security official says troops guarding the country's border with Mali have been given shoot-on-sight orders against anyone who ...

Algeria crisis strangling Sahara tourism
The awe-inspiring dunes and wild mountains of Algeria's Sahara have lured adventure travelers for decades, but their latest incarnation — as a ...
2 guards killed in attack on Algerian gas pipeline
Gunmen attacked a gas pipeline in northern Algeria and killed two village guards before being driven off, a local security official said Monday.

Algeria: 8 troops hurt while ending hostage crisis
Algeria says it did not sustain heavy losses and that only eight soldiers suffered minor wounds during a four-day siege of a gas plant by ...

Algeria scours Sahara for 5 missing foreigners
Algerian forces scoured the Sahara Desert on Tuesday, searching for five foreign energy workers who vanished during a chaotic four-day battle with ...

Inside job, 2 Canadian militants in Algeria siege
The hostage-taking at a remote Algerian gas plant was carried out by 30 militants from across the northern swath of Africa and two from Canada, ...

Death toll climbs past 80 in siege in the Sahara
The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed past 80 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the refinery for ...

Algeria: 32 militants killed, with 23 hostages
In a bloody finale, Algerian special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end a standoff with Islamist extremists ...
State Dept.: 1 American dead in Algerian standoff
One American worker at a natural gas complex in Algeria has been found dead, U.S. officials said Friday as the Obama administration sought to secure ...

Algerian army takes hard line in militant battle
The militants had filled five jeeps with hostages and begun to move when Algerian government attack helicopters opened up on them, leaving four in ...

60 hostages dead, missing in Algeria standoff
About 60 foreign hostages are still unaccounted for three days into a bloody siege with Islamic militants at a gas plant deep in the Sahara, Algeria's ...

Algeria: Army rescues hostages, toll unclear
Algerian helicopters and special forces stormed a gas plant in the stony plains of the Sahara on Thursday to wipe out Islamist militants and free ...

Algeria mulls international force for hostages
Algeria's government searched desperately Thursday for a way to end a desert standoff with Islamic militants who have taken dozens of foreigners ...
Algerian convicted in 2003 tourist kidnappings
A court in Algiers has convicted an Algerian of taking part in the 2003 kidnapping of 15 European tourists, mainly German, in the Sahara Desert and ...
Report: Senior al-Qaida in N Africa member killed
An Algerian newspaper says the right-hand man to the head of al-Qaida's North African branch was one of seven insurgents killed by the army last week.