Relations between Algeria and its former coloniser, France, have rarely been straightforward. After hitting a low point in July when France supported Algeria’s regional rival Morocco over its ...

A court in Algeria on Tuesday upheld Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal's five-year prison sentence in a case that has ...

France also accuses Algeria of blacklisting French companies bidding for public contracts, replacing French with English in primary education, ...

ALGIERS, Algeria – Three grainy photos showing French soldiers torturing an Algerian and hanging in an official exhibit in Paris are perhaps the closest public reckoning France has made of the ...

In addition to souring relations with France, Sansal’s arrest also comes in a context of heightened censorship in Algeria. Since pro-democracy protestors forced the military to oust longtime ...

Algeria's army chief is on an official discreet visit to France for the first time in over six decades. The French president wants to make peace after France’s 132 year colonial history.

The scars, both for many former colonial settlers and for ties between France and Algeria, have never fully healed. But enough time has passed, and Algerian streets have become safe enough, for ...

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 ...

For years, writing about Algeria, or even acknowledging France’s violent past there, was a lonely endeavor. The novelist Gérard-Martial Princeau, who publishes under the pen name Mathieu Belezi ...

Indeed, so far Algeria's French-born recruits are a feel-good story, while the real France team is a woefully unloved shambles. After a disastrous 2–0 defeat to Mexico last week, France imploded.

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 ...