ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — While France celebrated the anniversary of victory over the Nazis on Wednesday, Algeria commemorated a more somber anniversary: The crackdown by French colonial forces on ...

PARIS — Algeria’s first post-independence president, Ahmed Ben Bella, who died Wednesday at the age of 95, was a charismatic revolutionary who fought alongside the French during World War II before ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) – In a story July 5 about Algeria marking 50 years of independence from France, The Associated Press erroneously reported based on a conversation with a French historian that the ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — French President Francois Hollande acknowledged the “unjust” and “brutal” nature of France’s occupation of Algeria for 132 years, but stopped short Thursday of apologizing for ...

Mohammed Harbi went from participating in Algeria’s independence struggle to writing some of the most important books about its history. Harbi, who died last month at the age of 92, was a creative ...

CANNES, France, May 21 (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 ...

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.

One of the founding members of the resistance to French colonial rule in the 1950s, Ahmed helped launch the independence war that eventually brought the North African country to freedom in 1962. One ...

July 5 marks the 50th anniversary of Algeria’s independence from France — the latter had ruled the former as a colony since 1830. The bitter, eight-year-long war that paved the way for Algerian ...

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 ...