Noureddine Ben Ysaad, the head of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights, reported that 27 death sentences were issued in Algeria last year. However, the total number...

A prominent statue depicting a naked woman in the Algerian city of Setif has been vandalised for the second time in the past year, local media reported yesterday. Videos...

After the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a number of business delegations representing Russia and the United States are expected to arrive in Algeria next week. An unprecedented...

30 years ago: 5 October 1988 is considered Algeria's Arab Spring

The Head of the Society for Peace Movement in Algeria has warned that state institutions in the North African country are gradually collapsing. The move by loyalist deputies to...

Sonatrach’s General Manager denied having the intention to cut off the supply of gas to the Kingdom of Morocco through the pipeline crossing its territory toward Spain. He confirmed...

Nearly 400 students have died in home-to-school accidents during the last academic year, a report by the state-run National Centre for Prevention and Road Safety (NCPRS) revealed yesterday. “During...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced last Friday that he would honour Algerian agents who fought for French colonialism against their own people in the 1950s, a week after he...

Controversial Iranian diplomat, Amir Mousavi has left Algeria after spending four years as the embassy’s cultural attaché. “Goodbye, my beloved Algerians. Four years later, we bid farewell to beloved Algeria,...

The Algerian authorities have suspended the security provision at the French Embassy in Algiers and Consulates around the country. French cultural centres and schools will continue to be protected,...

The crisis caused by the video of Libya’s General Khalifa Haftar in which he threatened to move the war to Algerian territory appears to have calmed down. Neither side...

Tunisia has witnessed repeated attacks by citizens on security forces that reached murder and defamation through videos widely circulated on social media. Last week, eight attacks on security officers...

Morocco and Algeria are ready to cooperate with us but they are seeking international financial support to secure their borders, France’s interior minister, Gerard Collomb, said yesterday. Speaking in...

The Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has fired both Ground Forces Commander, Major General Ahsan Tafer and Air Force Commander Major General Abdelkader Lounas. President Bouteflika’s decision on Monday follows...

Mauritanian Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed received Algeria’s ambassador to Mauritania Noureddine Khandoudi and his Moroccan counterpart Hamid Chabar in two separate meetings. Morocco considered such diplomatic move...

The French Presidency yesterday admitted for the first time to instigating a regime of torture during Algeria’s War of Independence which ended in 1962. In a statement, President Emmanuel...

Libyan Foreign Minister, Mohamed Taher Siala, yesterday denounced the recent threats made by Brigadier General Khalifa Haftar against Algeria, local media reported. Speaking to his Algerian counterpart, Abdelkader Messahel, Siala...

 Baghdad announced that it would summon the Algerian ambassador to inform him of Iraq’s rejection and discontent with the behaviour of some Algerian sports fans during the match between...

Two parliamentary groups in Algeria yesterday called for official national and international action to halt mass executions against activists, human rights workers and political figures in Egypt. The Movement...

Libya’s Brigadier General Khalifa Haftar has threatened to launch a war on Algeria following a recent incident where a number of Algerian soldiers crossed into Libya. A video published...

The ex-wife of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the jailed Egyptian Islamic theologian, has denied recently publicised claims by a Moroccan journalist, Abdelhak Snaibi, in the Saudi Al Riyadh and decided to sue...

The Gulf crisis, which began with the siege and the boycott of Qatar by several Gulf and Arab countries, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, did...

Many Algerians had reacted positively to the demands of activists and Facebook pages calling for the adoption of English as a first foreign language instead of French. This is in light...

French authorities evacuated 141 passengers and crew from a flight arriving in the French city of Perpignan from Algeria on Wednesday after a child on board was suspected of being infected...

The Algerian government announced on Monday that it would postponement of lifting subsidies support programme, cancel imposing new fees and taxes in the upcoming 2019 budget, and exempting all...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been dismissing generals to tighten his grip on power ahead of him possibly seeking re-election next year and to diminish the power of the...

Fear sparked by a recent cholera outbreak has led to a significant decline in consumer’s demand for fruits and vegetables from Algeria. Algeria’s export market has suffered particularly badly. Despite unprecedented growth...

Algerian authorities have arrested nearly 1,744 people, including farmers, who have been involved in cases of contaminated water which had negative repercussions on the health of Algerians. Shorouk News...

Two people have died of cholera in Algeria as 62 cases of disease have been identified since the start of the month, the Ministry of Health said yesterday. According...

Algerians heading abroad during August were shocked to receive no more than 100 Euro tourist grant, compared to 15,000 Algerian dinars, the lowest figure ever since it was set...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Wednesday dismissed the army’s security chief, Mohamed Terche, replacing him with General Osman Ben Meloud, according to local media reports. Bouteflika also dismissed the...

Algeria and Mauritania yesterday opened the first border crossing post between the two countries with the aim of increasing trade and facilitate travel. Algerian Interior Minister, Noureddine Bedoui, and...