Algeria

Eleven people killed in orphanage fire in suburb of Algerian capital

Eleven people were killed and 19 injured in the fire as emergency teams work to evacuate victims amidst a heatwave in Algeria.

Illustrative: Firetrucks are pictured as firefighters attempt to extinguish a blaze at Chrea National Park, in the south of Algeria's Blida province, on August 27, 2025.
SpyX enables tactical teams to organically detect, confirm and hit targets with the ability to carry a variety of warheads up to 2.5 kg such as Anti-Personnel and light vehicles (A/P) and Anti-Tanks (A/T).

Algeria is spending $25 billion to counter weapons Israel built for Morocco - opinion

Argentina's Lionel Messi

'Jewish lobby' at fault for World Cup decisions, Messi's goals, Algerian sports analyst claims

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar meets with Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi in first diplomatic visit to Somaliland on January 6, 2026.

Israel's Somaliland envoy sparks regional backlash from 15 Arab, Muslim states


Black Algerian Beauty Queen Ben Hamou sparks racist outrage

Freshly crowned Miss Algeria 2019 leads Algerians to remark she's not pretty enough.

Khadija Ben Hamou

Call to release Algerian blogger imprisoned for interviewing Israeli MFA

Algerian authorities arrested Merzoug Touati on January 18, 2017. The government charged him with “incitement to take up arms against the authority of the state.”

Arab Spring protests topple regimes

7 alleged Mossad spies sentenced in Algerian court

One man was sentenced to death, while six others were sentenced to ten years in prison.

Spy wars

More than 250 killed in Algerian military plane crash

Algeria’s defense ministry issued a statement expressing condolences to families of the victims.

Smoke rises at the scene where a plane crashed into a field outside Algiers, Algeria April 11, 2018 in this still image taken from a video. ENNAHAR TV/Handout/ via REUTERS

Al Qaida trying to regroup in Tunisia after Islamic State setbacks

The Islamic State became a major recruiter for disaffected, often unemployed young men especially from Tunisia.

Protesters burns a US flag during a protest against Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Tunis, Tunisia, December 7, 2017.

German government recognizes Algerian Jews as Holocaust survivors

Jews who resided in Algeria between July 1940 and November 1942, and suffered from Nazi persecution, may now be eligible for a one-time payment.

Allied US troops stream up from landing boats and set off inland from Surcouf in Algeria during the Second World War II, 8 November 1942

Gazan student in Algeria flown to Israel to donate kidney to teen brother

The boy shows excellent signs of recovery, but he and his family can’t return to Gaza now because he needs medical care twice weekly.

Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center

The French medical brain drain: Why are so many doctors leaving for Israel?

Agency officials say the average rate of disappointed returnees to France from 1990-2014 was 10 percent but that the number has dropped since.

Dr. Michel Alimi (second from the right) with a team of other French medical professionals.

World heritage, Israeli style

Since Palestine joined UNESCO as a member in 2011, it has had three sites approved: the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Battir and Hebron’s Old Town.

Detail from a catacomb wall and a menorah, at Beit She’arim.

Voices from the Arab press: Weekly selection and analyses from Arab media

The Lebanese people are busy complaining about the disintegration of their society, yet they refuse to take action against the source of this threat.

Kurds celebrate to show their support for the independence referendum in Duhok, Iraq, September 26, 2017.