Algeria

US Air Force airmen guide evacuees aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan

G-7 agrees on conditions to recognize and work with the Taliban

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G-7 leaders agree on conditions to recognize and work with the Taliban, but fail to persuade President Joe Biden to extend the US troop withdrawal date from Afghanistan. Also, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will meet with President Biden for talks in Washington on Thursday. And Algeria has cut diplomatic ties with Morocco.

A man wearing a blue shirt leans his body over a coffin draped with the Algerian flag in a room full of coffins.

French report reignites debate about colonialism in Algeria

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Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest to reject the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria, Dec. 12, 2019.

Algerians protesting elections want real reform, not a military junta, analyst says

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Many young men holding Algerian flags scale a monument of a woman holding a torch, attached to which is a flag

Algeria’s ailing president was once a revolutionary. After mass protests, he won’t seek a fifth term.

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Algeran artists exchange ideas at BOX 24, an artist collective in Algiers.

Algeria’s contemporary artists strive to make their own space

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Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika casts his ballot during the presidential election in Algiers April 17, 2014. Algerians voted on Thursday in the election Bouteflika is expected to win after 15 years in power.

Algeria’s presidential election is less revolution and more ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’

Global Politics

Algerians who are interested in their current election — and there aren’t many, really — were greeted with a surreal scene of their little seen president being wheeled into a voting booth to cast a ballot for his own re-election. Slowly, Algerians are trying to bring change to a country that’s been ruled by the same many for almost 15 years.Algerians who are interested in their current election — and there aren’t many, really — were greeted with a surreal scene of their little seen president being wheeled into a voting booth to cast a ballot for his own re-election. Slowly, Algerians are trying to bring change to a country that’s been ruled by the same many for almost 15 years.

Albert Camus in 1957.

What Albert Camus can teach us about nation-building

Global Politics

Albert Camus was dashing, brilliant and died young. The French Algerian intellectual, philosopher and writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the tender age of 44 but died in a car crash just a few years later. His books like “The Myth of Sisyphus” and “The Plague” are still read by college students and even world leaders. But Camus’ standing in France was forever tarnished by his views on the Algerian war.

Militants in Mali take hostages in Algeria

The ongoing unrest in northern Mali is raising concerns that the militants could move into neighboring countries. And with the latest jihadist retaliation and taking of hostages, some say it’s time for an increased focus on the Maghreb region and the militants who rule it.

Harkis still waiting for French apology 50 years after Algerian War

A small group of Algerians who fought on the French side of Algeria’s war of independence suffered widespread discrimination after the French military abandoned the country. Those who escaped to France didn’t fair much better. Fifty years later, they’re still waiting for an apology.

Why Algerians Shudder at the Mention of ‘Arab Spring’

Conflict & Justice

The January hostage siege at Algeria’s In Amenas gas field has only deepened Algerians fear of militant Islamist, says Time magazine’s Vivienne Walt.