Wildfires in Algeria killed 34 people on Monday, including ten soldiers, according to Reuters, citing the interior ministry.
The wildfires are a result of the ongoing heatwave which has been taking place across north Africa and southern (...)
The death toll in fires ravaging mountain forests and villages in Algeria's Berber region climbed Wednesday to 65 people, including 28 soldiers, as the president declared a three-day mourning period this week to honor the lives lost.
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At least 25 soldiers died saving residents from wildfires ravaging mountain forests and villages east of Algeria's capital, the president announced Tuesday night as the civilian toll rose to at least 17.
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune tweeted that (...)
Egypt has expressed its sincere condolences to Algeria and the families of the victims of the mass fires that erupted in several Algerian states.
Egypt affirmed its full support for Algeria in this painful situation, expressing its sincere wishes (...)
Egypt extended on Tuesday its condolences to Algeria's people over the victims of the wildfires that broke out recently in a number of provinces across the Arab country.
"The Arab Republic of Egypt expresses its sincere condolences and support to (...)
أغلقت الأجهزة الأمنية الجزائرية مؤخرا، أكثر من 12 كنيسة بتيزي وزو شرق العاصمة الجزائر، بأمر من الوالي محمود جامع، لعدم حصولها على تراخيص لممارسة نشاطها.
وأفادت صحيفة "النهار" الجزائرية بأن السلطات شمعت العديد من أماكن العبادة المخصصة لمعتنقي الديانة (...)
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 (...)
The Algerian authorities arrested the country's richest man Issad Rebrab on Monday, hours after apprehending four business tycoons as part of an anti-corruption drive.
Rebrab, 77, was named by the US magazine Forbes as the ninth richest man in (...)
Algerian security forces detained 75 protesters, and 11 policemen suffered from minor injuries during last Friday's demonstrations against the extension of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's fourth term, according to security forces.
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Hundreds of thousands of people protested in central Algiers on Friday in the biggest demonstration against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's 20-year rule since unrest began last month.
Protesters crammed streets and squares in the capital after (...)
Police deployed Wednesday in the Algerian capital with water cannons, a day after thousands of students demonstrated against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's re-election bid.
Although the city remained calm, security forces were bracing for (...)
Police deployed Wednesday in the Algerian capital with water cannons, a day after thousands of students demonstrated against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's re-election bid.
Although the city remained calm, security forces were bracing for (...)
Tens of thousands of people in cities across Algeria called on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to leave office in the country's biggest anti-government demonstrations since the Arab Spring eight years ago.
The protests were mostly peaceful but as (...)
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's decision to seek a fifth term as president has triggered a wave of protests in the Algerian capital Algiers and elsewhere in the country, with some observers saying that the protests, which erupted on Friday (...)
Protesters chanting "No for Bouteflika" and "No for fifth term" spread across different Algerian cities over the last week against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term despite his deteriorating health condition.
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Thousands of people in cities across Algeria marched to protest against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's plan to seek a fifth term and police used tear gas to disperse crowds in the capital.
The 81-year-old Bouteflika, in office since 1999, will (...)
Members of five teaching unions in Algeria went on strike this week over better pay and conditions, joining hundreds of colleagues who already walked out months ago amid public spending cuts caused by falling energy prices.
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Algeria security forces on Saturday killed three Islamist militants close to the town where police shot dead a would-be suicide bomber earlier in the week, the ministry of defence said in a statement.
The three were killed in a military ambush after (...)
Algerian security forces shot dead an Islamist militant wearing a suicide bomb belt before he could detonate his explosives in a small town east of the capital Algiers, the state news agency APS said on Thursday.
The militant had been evading (...)
The North African affiliate of al-Qaida says one of its leading figures has been killed in an ambush by Algerian soldiers.
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, says that Abu al-Hassan Rachid al-Bulaydi, head of the Sharia Committee, was killed (...)
Algerian troops have killed two armed Islamists in an ambush in Tizi Ouzou province, east of the capital, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
They recovered a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a pistol and ammunition in the operation, which occurred Monday (...)
Algerian authorities temporarily evacuated nearly 100 Turkish construction workers from a roadway project east of Algiers as a precaution after a threat from militants affiliated with Islamic State, security sources said on Monday.
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Algerian authorities temporarily evacuated nearly 100 Turkish construction workers from a roadway project east of Algiers as a precaution after a threat from militants affiliated with Islamic State, security sources said on Monday.
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