Algiers was said to have 20,000 slaves ... plunder — what is today Syria and Lebanon. France already controlled much of North Africa and West Africa. Britain, also a leading colonial empire ...

THERE WAS joy and horror and anguish all at once. Many of the detainees freed from Saidnaya, the most notorious prison in Syria, were husks: skeletal frames, vacant stares. They staggered out of ...

Sansal was arrested in Algeria in mid-November on charges of "undermining state security" and has since been detained in a ...

The statement attributed to the toppled leader was posted to Telegram. LONDON -- Former Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday made his first official statement since being toppled by a rebel ...

A bloc of «rejection» that brought together Libya, Algeria, Syria, and South Yemen. The summit of this front in Algiers, in February 1978, ratified the recognition. Since then, the Polisario has ...

Syria's new rulers have appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency that toppled Bashar al-Assad, as defense minister in the interim government, an official source said on ...

At the heart of Algeria's concerns lies the presence of Russian paramilitary Wagner Group in Libya and Mali—which orchestrated attacks near its border.

The unsettling incident, inspired by real events, ignites the occasionally tense, if mostly dramatically inert social thriller “Algiers,” the country’s Oscar international feature submission ...