For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s ...

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, ...

A member of Iraqi security forces holds an upside-down Islamic State flag on top of a building destroyed from clashes in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq (Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters). Nawzat Shamdeen ...

At the Collège des Bernardins, the exhibition Called Twice. The Martyrs of Algeria, is organized into twenty panels and two videos. Conceived and curated by the Vatican Publishing House (LEV) and the ...

If there’s one thing last week’s attack on the Algerian gas facility should tell us, it’s that the “war on terror” isn’t all that different from the “war on drugs”. Throwing money at a problem and ...

The Catholic Church on Saturday beatified in Algeria seven French monks and 12 other clergy killed during the countrys civil war, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. Jean-Paul Vesco, ...

PARIS, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Nearly 50 years after Algeria won independence from France, the unhealed wounds of the war of decolonisation keep wrenching at French society and could play a key role in the ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Nearly 50 years after Algeria won independence from France, the unhealed wounds of the war of decolonisation keep wrenching at French society and could play a key role in the 2012 ...