
Algeria: president had full stroke, but recovering
Algeria's president had a full stroke, not a mini-stroke as originally reported, but he is recovering with the help of physical therapy, his office ...
Algerian president leaves Paris military hospital
Officials say Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has left the French military hospital where he has been treated for nearly a month and ...

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 ...

Jihadi peril makes its way to Tunisia
The hunt for al-Qaida-linked militants in a mountainous region near Tunisia's borders with Algeria in recent days has raised alarm that the birthplace ...
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 ...

France: Key al-Qaida chief in Mali likely killed
France said Monday for the first time that a key al-Qaida leader in Mali is probably dead. An activist close to the terror network's north Africa ...

Algeria militants played shrewd media game
As wildly contradictory accounts trickled out about a terror attack at an Algerian gas plant, one source of information proved to be the most ...
Pentagon: AQ ally is top suspect in Algeria attack
The Pentagon on Tuesday stopped short of saying al-Qaida's North Africa affiliate is definitely to blame for the deadly Algeria terrorist attack, but ...

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 terror leader preferred money to death
Moktar Belmoktar is known abroad as the man who orchestrated the abduction of scores of foreigners last week at a BP-operated plant in the remote, ...

US wants to know how Algerian attack unfolded
The White House says it will work with the Algerian government to understand how events unfolded in the terrorist attack on a natural gas complex in ...

Obama says US ready to assist Algerian officials
President Barack Obama said Saturday the U.S. stands ready to provide whatever assistance Algerian officials need in the aftermath of the deadly ...

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 ...

Africa forces' role in Mali faces diverse snags
West African nations that promised to send troops to fight al-Qaida in Mali are finding it's a lot trickier than they'd hoped to actually get boots ...

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 ...

Cameron delays Europe speech amid Algeria crisis
Prime Minister David Cameron is postponing a key speech about Britain and the EU because of the hostage crisis in Algeria, officials said Thursday.

A look at what countries are contributing to Mali
Here's a look at what countries are providing to help Mali's battle against armed Islamic extremists who have occupied the country's north since March

North African nations take different reform routes
Two years after an itinerant Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire to protest government injustice and ignited uprisings across the Middle East, ...