An increasingly tense dispute between Paris and Algiers has spiralled into what French diplomatic sources told Euronews is the “biggest diplomatic crisis” since Algeria gained independence in 1962.

Demonstrators converged on Algiers in their thousands for a massive anti-government rally called to coincide with official celebrations of the anniversary of the war that won Algeria’s independence ...

ALGERIA - CIRCA 1959: The Algerian War in Algeria in 1959 - Harkis on a military operation. (Photo by Jean-Louis SWINERS/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) July 5 marks the 50th anniversary of Algeria’s ...

Tens of thousands gathered in an Algerian village Friday for the burial of Hocine Ait-Ahmed, one of the fathers of the country’s struggle for independence and a key opposition figure. Ait-Ahmed died ...

Algerian Independence Day is celebrated every year on July 5. It marks the end of more than 132 years of French colonial rule and the birth of Algeria as a free and sovereign nation. This day is not ...

Algerian women bravely waged a battle against colonialism and patriarchy. Today, their legacy continues to inspire a new ...

On both sides of the broad Algerian boulevard stood columns of red-bereted French paratroopers, Tommy guns slung across their chests. Inside the square 15,000 Algerians—Moslem and European —gazed ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — As Europe celebrates the 80th anniversary of its triumph over fascism and the end of World War II, Algeria is remembering a darker anniversary: the colonial-era massacres that ...

Legendary Algerian film-maker Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina has passed away at the age of 91. He is most commonly remembered as the first (and only) African to win the coveted Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes ...

CANNES, France (Reuters) - A film on the bloody fight for Algerian independence opened amid heightened police security in Cannes on Friday as demonstrators outside protested that it sullied the memory ...