Millions of voters elected an Islamic political party to run the country, but the military stepped in, forced out the winners of the election and handpicked a group of politicians in their place. No, ...

Rule of law scarcely discourages the endless reprisals in Rachid Bouchareb’s Algerian War–era family-ties drama Outside the Law, which shows the FLN’s militant campaign for Algerian independence, as ...

ALGIERS — Algeria's government proposed a law to streamline military mobilization amid tensions with neighboring countries Morocco and Mali, as well as former colonial ruler France. The text, set to ...

The Algerian War of Independence wasn’t just a rebellion—it was a turning point for modern warfare and colonial rule. France fought to hold onto Algeria at all costs, while insurgents used tactics ...

Prepare to crank those amps up to eleven.

Dana: The war became a defining political issue, and everyone took sides. Thousands of people marched through the streets of Paris, both against and in favor of French rule in Algeria. And there was ...

One day after Islamic militants invaded an Algerian gas field and seized dozens of Western workers, there are fears that several of the foreign hostages might be dead—potentially escalating the ...