Algerian Independence Day is celebrated every year on July 5. It marks the end of more than 132 years of French colonial rule ...

French historian Jean-Michel Abati called on the French to revisit the truth of French colonial history in Algeria to understand the realities of the tragedies Paris caused Algerians, in his ...

In 1830, France forcibly and violently colonized Algeria, keeping it as a territory until 1962, when the North African nation gained its independence following one of the longest and most intense ...

Algeria won its independence following a gruelling eight-year war which ended with the signing in March 1962 of the Evian Accords. Young Algerians hang their country's national flag on buildings in ...

Jean-Charles Langlois' Panorama of Algiers (1833) and the prospective colonial landscape -- Algeria at the Museum of French history -- Illustrated travelogues and imperial tourism: the Journal de ...

ALGIERS, Algeria — As Europe celebrates the 80th anniversary of its triumph over fascism and the end of World War II, Algeria is remembering a darker anniversary: the colonial-era massacres that ...

The People’s National Assembly, the lower house of Algeria’ parliament, began debating a draft law on Saturday seeking to criminalize French colonization. The draft proposal has five chapters with 27 ...

ALGIERS, Algeria — After decades in a French museum, the skulls of 24 Algerians decapitated for resisting French colonial forces were formally repatriated to Algeria on Friday in an elaborate ceremony ...

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) meets his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune on the sidelines of a G7 summit in Italy in June. — Ludovic MARIN Relations between France and Algeria have hit ...

Algeria’s parliament has unanimously passed a law declaring France’s colonisation of the country a crime, escalating tensions between the two nations and renewing demands for an official apology and ...