This is a rich but mistitled history. It offers a detailed study of Algeria from its brutal eight-year war of independence (1954-62) to the present but only a brief outline of the period from 1830 to ...

Algerian Independence Day is celebrated every year on July 5. It marks the end of more than 132 years of French colonial rule ...

France will speed up the declassification of secret defense archives, including those related to its war with Algeria, as it continues to grapple with its colonial history. France colonized Algeria ...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - When French soldiers and administrators left Algeria after more than a century of colonial rule, they did not go empty-handed. They took historical artifacts, books and maps, a ...

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 ...

Algeria is no stranger to the church. The fourth century theologian St. Augustine was born in what is now the eastern edge of Algeria and wrote his famous confessions there. Christians have been in ...