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French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau is “in the process” of tightening travel conditions to France for “a number of ...
The French authorities have resorted to alternative diplomacy to preserve their remaining interests in Algeria, which have ...
After being re-elected in September, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced he would not travel to France, having repeatedly postponed a state visit that was first planned for May 2023.
About 400,000 Algerian civilians and fighters were killed, as well as about 35,000 French and as many as 30,000 Muslim "harkis" who fought in the French army against Algerian insurgents.
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.
ALGIERS, Algeria — A dispute over the fate of 60 Algerians that France hopes to deport has deepened a rupture between the countries that has approached a historic low over the past year.
France said Wednesday it will expel Algerian diplomats in response to Algeria’s decision to do the same, escalating a diplomatic standoff. The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said in a ...
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 ...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A dispute over the fate of 60 Algerians that France hopes to deport has deepened a rupture between the countries that has approached a historic low over the past year.
"Relations between France and Algeria can be good or bad, but in no case can they be banal," said former president Houari Boumediene (1965-1978) in 1974. This sentiment still holds true today.
Algerian anger against the “Harkis,” as they are known in France, ran so deep that even in 2000, during a visit to Paris, the former Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, compared them to ...
French soldiers marching with Algerian prisoners in 1956. The French colonial past in Algeria is a trauma that continues to shape modern France. Reporters Associes/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images ...