HAIZER, Algeria: While tens of thousands of Algerians have been gathering for four months in the capital to demand sweeping political reforms, former fighters...
ALGIERS: The army has thrust itself into the kingmaker role in Algeria’s crisis, but as it works backstage to remove an ailing president and broker calls from...
ALGIERS: One of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s few remaining allies in the face of mass protests, tycoon Ali Haddad, is facing pressure to quit as head of...
ALGIERS: Algerian protesters have chosen prominent reformist lawyers and rights activists to spearhead popular pressure against what they see as an...
ALGIERS: The biggest demonstrations in Algeria since the 2011 Arab Spring uprising have died down since the weekend, but cracks are appearing within a ruling...
ALGIERS: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a veteran of the war for independence who has ruled Algeria for two decades, is again fighting for survival, this...
ALGIERS: Until last week the leading topic that Algerian engineer Mohammad Aissiou and his mates would discuss over coffee was football. Specifically, local...
ALGIERS: No matter who wins Algeria's presidential election, 29-year-old cardiologist Moumen Mohammad plans to seek his fortune elsewhere. He is one of a...
ALGIERS: A rare public appearance by veteran Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is fueling speculation he will run for a fifth term next year, a move...
ORAN, Algeria: When the U.S.-educated CEO of Algeria’s state energy company Sonatrach ended a speech to staff by seeking questions, an executive sitting next...
ALGIERS: Members of five teaching unions in Algeria went on strike this week over better pay and conditions, joining hundreds of colleagues who already walked...
TUNIS/ALGIERS: The killing of a senior Algerian militant by special forces soon after he slipped into Tunisia has raised concern that Al-Qaeda is trying to...
ALGIERS/LONDON: Algeria needs to exploit its shale gas resources to offset a surge in local energy consumption that is eating into vital exports, but...
ALGIERS: Algerians are facing the eventual departure of their long-serving president, the ailing Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in the knowledge that all is being done...
ALGIERS: Two Islamist opposition parties in Algeria have posted faceless portraits of female candidates for May’s legislative election, upsetting state...
ALGIERS: After a deep slide in oil prices, Algeria’s Sonatrach is shifting strategy to offer foreign firms direct negotiations to buy stakes in 20 oil and gas...
ALGIERS: A former Islamist guerrilla fighter’s plans to enter politics have fanned fears of instability in Algeria, more than two decades after the army...
ALGIERS: Algerian authorities temporarily evacuated nearly 100 Turkish construction workers from a roadway project east of Algiers as a precaution after a...
ALGIERS: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's mental and cognitive faculties are intact and he will continue to govern Algeria, the ruling FLN party's chairman...
ALGIERS: Nearly a thousand Algerian policemen staged a sit-in outside President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's office in Algiers Wednesday, demanding better working...
ALGIERS: Algerian troops killed eight suspected militants in the eastern Bouira region where they have been tracking an Al-Qaeda splinter group that killed a...
ALGIERS: When a little-known group of Algerian militants beheaded a French tourist last week, they were not only lashing out at the West, but also staking an...
ALGIERS: Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, newly re-elected despite suffering a stroke last year, has proposed a raft of reforms including setting a...
CHLEF, Algeria: At a packed sports hall in western Algeria, portraits of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika gaze down on supporters rallying for his re-election....
ALGIERS: Algerian opposition parties rallied several thousand supporters on Friday to call for a boycott of next month's election and to reject President...