A chain of wildfires are raging out of control throughout several regions in Algeria on Wednesday. Ali Mahmoudi, the forests director general, said authorities counted 86 fire spots in 17 provinces.
In Tizi Ouzou, there are 30 huge fires, amid (...)
Algeria held a presidential election Thursday meant to bring stability after a year of political turmoil, but voting was marred as protesters ransacked provincial polling stations and rallied in the capital.
The unpopular vote comes almost 10 months (...)
Tens of thousands of protesters demanding the removal of Algeria's ruling elite gathered in the capital Algiers for a 12th successive Friday, defying attempts by the army to ease tensions ahead of presidential election.
The demonstrators are pushing (...)
As protests by millions of workers and youth demanding the removal of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika have continued and escalated this past week, strikes against social inequality, layoffs and exploitative working conditions are spreading (...)
Anti-riot police officers clash with people protesting against president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers. Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
Police have fired teargas to disperse tens of thousands of demonstrators marching through central Algiers (...)
The Algerian army have destroyed a terrorist stronghold and two bombs in Boumerdes and Tizi Ouzou provinces in Algeria.
In a statement issued by the Algerian Defense Ministry, the Algerian security divisions in a number of Algerian provinces (...)
ALGIERS – Militants have killed at least 11 Algerian soldiers in an ambush on a patrol in mountains east of the capital Algiers, a security source said on Sunday, in one of the deadliest attacks on the military in years.
The troops were searching (...)
ALGIERS — The Algerian army killed seven militants in their stronghold east of Algiers, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday, as government forces stepped up operations against suspected Al Qaeda-linked fighters.
It was the largest government (...)
As many as 33 persons including policemen were wounded in a suicide bombing attack at a Police Station in central city of Tizi Ouzou, which lies 100 kms east of Algiers.
"Al-Watan" newspaper, in a report on its website, said the suicide bomber (...)
ALGIERS, Algeria: Algerian police thwarted a rally by thousands of pro-democracy supporters Saturday, breaking up the crowd into isolated groups to keep them from marching.
Police brandishing clubs, but no firearms, weaved their way through the (...)
ALGIERS: A third person has died in Algeria as a result of riots sparked by the rising cost of living and unemployment, Interior Minister Dahou Ould Kablia said Saturday.
“I confirm the death of three young people at M'sila, Tipaza and Boumerdes,” (...)
ALGIERS, Algeria: Police faced off against rioting youths, Muslim prayer leaders called for calm and authorities canceled football matches Friday as Algeria tried to quell unrest over rising food prices.
New clashes between youths and police were (...)
Apart from them being a linguistic or cultural problem, the protests of Algerian tribal inhabitants in Tizi Ouzou put forth deep-seated problems, not the least of which is the demand to adopt a system of autonomy for this region of Amazigh identity, (...)
Two policemen were shot dead by terrorists in eastern Algeria in the fifth such deadly attack during the current fasting month of Ramadan, DPA quoted reports as saying.
The newspaper Liberte said that the attack took place in Tizi Ouzou east of the (...)
Two car bombs rocked a hotel and military headquarters in Algeria, killing 12 people and wounding 42 on Wednesday, with the country still reeling from a suicide bomber who killed 48 people a day earlier.
The two car bombs were triggered by remote (...)
A suicide attack Tuesday on a police school killed 43 people and wounded 38, authorities said as Algeria reeled from its worst militant assault this year.
An Al-Qaeda group has claimed previous suicide attacks in Algeria but officials gave no (...)
A suicide car bombing killed eight people east of Algiers late on Saturday in the second such attack this month, OPEC member Algeria's official APS news agency reported on Sunday.
The blast, which also wounded 19 people, happened at about 10 P.M. (...)
A car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of Algiers on Sunday, wounding 25 people including four policemen, the government of the OPEC member country said.
The blast happened at about 5 A.M. (0400 GMT) in the centre of Tizi Ouzou, (...)
The Interior Ministry says a blast
near a police station in northern Algeria has wounded 21
people.
It says six people injured were police officers.
The ministry says in a statement that the explosion
occurred Sunday morning in Tizi-Ouzou. The (...)
