Algerian relations have always been part diplomacy, part couples therapy. With around 10% of the French population connected ...

Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal is facing five years in prison in Algeria after he lost an appeal against his ...

France said Tuesday it was expelling 12 Algerian diplomatic officials a day after Algeria announced the expulsion of the same number of French officials in escalating tensions between the two ...

France colonised Algeria for 132 years, killing Algerian civilians and creating a class structure in which European settlers and their descendants were on top. The French refused to leave Algeria ...

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal will not appeal his five-year prison sentence, sources close to the author said on ...

ALGIERS, Algeria — A dispute over the fate of 60 Algerians that France hopes to deport has deepened a rupture between the countries that has approached a historic low over the past year.

France in Algeria - key dates. 1830: France occupies Algiers. 1848: After an uprising led by rebel leader Abd-el-Kader, Paris declares Algeria to be an integral part of France.

France ruled Algeria for more than a century, as a colony and then a part of its territory. Algeria won its independence in 1962, after a devastating war, ...

Algeria, as a sovereign nation, has never been among the parade’s invitees. It couldn’t be, as it was part of France itself from 1830 until it gained independence, in 1962, and severed ties ...

The ghosts of Algeria's war of independence from France still haunt both countries, six decades on. France has made tentative attempts to heal the wounds but refuses to "apologise or repent" for ...

France colonised Algeria for 132 years, killing Algerian civilians and creating a class structure in which European settlers and their descendants were on top. The French refused to leave Algeria ...