Algeria Bound

Algerian actresses angered by murders and violence targeting women have launched a campaign to fight the phenomenon -- but not everyone has welcomed their initiative. After the gruesome rape, torture and murder of a 19-year-old woman sparked angry demonstrations...

(Photo: pro-vote banner in Algiers proclaiming: "we vote for us and our children) - Two weeks after the start of campaigning for the constitutional referendum, Algerian authorities from the ministry of the interior and provincial governments, have only authorized the...

Several years ago, the Algerian authorities turned a blind eye to the acquisition of a luxury hotel in Barcelona by disgraced Algerian oligarch Ali Haddad. It did so because the regime at its highest echelon was deeply tied to the world of crooked businessmen that...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged Algeria to immediately release two men imprisoned for homosexuality and to void the convictions of all 44 people prosecuted in the same case. On September 3, an Algerian court sentenced two men to three years' jail and 42 people to...