In 1945, France still had the world’s second-largest colonial empire, covering almost one-tenth of the Earth’s surface.

He gave up a lucrative contract in France to help create a football team to represent the Algerian resistance in the fight ...

Rachid Mekhloufi, a star of French football who became a symbol of the Algerian fight for independence, has died aged 88, ...

For a while, at least, Algeria was back at war last week. In the rugged mountains and deep canyons of the Kabylia region, where guerrillas had fought for independence for 71 years, new guerrilla ...

Algeria marked the 70th anniversary of the launch of its war for independence from France with a military parade on Friday, as relations with their former colonial ruler sour again. Military jets ...

As she zigzagged into Algerian waters last week a French destroyer ... rifles and pistols to equip 3,000 guerrillas. More important to the French than the arrest of the arms runners was the ...

In 1962, Ahmed Ben Bella, leader of one of the main factions fighting the French, led the country to independence. A SENEGALESE VIEW OF THE ALGERIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE "Fighting African people on ...

(MENAFN) Algeria recently marked the 63rd anniversary of a tragic event in its struggle for independence, when dozens of Algerian activists were killed by French Police in Paris. During a ...