Algeria

Non-governmental groups have called on United Nations member states to oppose the admission of Afghanistan, Algeria, Sudan, Venezuela, and Vietnam to the Human Rights Council (UNHRC), citing "problematic" human rights ...

ALGIERS, Algeria—Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 37 people and wounded 161 ...

PARIS/ALGIERS—Algeria has closed its airspace to French military planes, France's military said on Sunday, escalating the biggest row ...

ALGIERS, Algeria—Authorities have detained 36 people in the brutal mob killing and burning of a man in a ...

ALGIERS, Algeria—The death toll in fires ravaging mountain forests and villages in Algeria’s Berber region climbed Wednesday to ...

ALGIERS—Forty-two people, including 25 military men, have died in wildfires that erupted east of the Algerian capital, Algiers, ...

Dozens of wildfires have spread in Algeria and killed at least 42 people, including 25 military men deployed ...

At least eight newborn babies died in a fire that occurred in a hospital’s neonatal ward in Algeria ...

ALGIERS—Algeria's interim president, in a televised speech to the nation, promised on April 9 to organize free elections ...

ALGIERS, Algeria—Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will step down before his fourth term ends on April 28, his office ...

ALGIERS—Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Algiers on March 29 to demand the resignation ...

ALGIERS—After weeks of mass protests, Algeria's powerful army chief of staff called on March 26 for a constitutional ...

ALGIERS—Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika abandoned his bid for a fifth term in power on March 11, bowing to ...

ALGIERS—President Abdelaziz Bouteflika flew home to Algeria on March 10 after spending two weeks in a Swiss hospital, ...

ALGIERS—Algerian independence war veterans said protesters demanding ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down after 20 years in power ...

ALGIERS—Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, facing mass protests over his 20 years in power, will run in April's elections ...

ALGIERS—Algerian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators on a third straight day of rare political ...

ALGIERS—Algerian authorities on Oct. 18 banned women from wearing full-face veils, or niqabs, at work, citing reasons of ...

ALGIERS, Algeria—Mosques are going up, women are covering up, and shops selling alcoholic beverages are shutting down in ...

As most Francophone African countries celebrate their 55 years of independence this year, this may be a good ...

ALGIERS, Algeria—Algeria's prime minister announced Wednesday that plans to drill for the country's abundant shale gas reserves have ...

ALGIERS, Algeria—Algeria's oil minister on Sunday called on OPEC to cut production and raise the price of oil, ...

Reflecting its lessening oil clout, OPEC decided Thursday to keep its output target on hold and sit out ...

OPEC oil ministers meeting in Vienna on Thursday are in a bind. Prices are plunging — and in ...

In the current two months between mid-April and early June, five Arab countries—Algeria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and even ...

As in many other authoritarian regimes in the region, the Algerian elections are not meant to facilitate a ...

Algeria on Thursday held parliamentary elections for the first time since the Arab Spring unrest that left the ...