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To the uninitiated, Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) group may be pursuing the same long-term goal of spreading Islamic law through territorial expansion and deadly violence. But actually, their ideology and methods differ so fundamentally that they are...

In this episode, Arezki Daoud of MEA Risk LLC and Editor of the North Africa Journal revisits Algeria after the most recent brief review on Egypt. Why Algeria? because the country is bracing for yet another election on 1 November with the government of President...

Algerian extremist court punishes man for his religious views, more human rights abuses by conservative judges An Algerian court on Thursday handed a key member of the Hirak anti-government protest movement a 10-year prison sentence for "inciting atheism", a rights...

The rape and murder in Algeria of a 19-year-old woman sparked cries for action on gender-based violence in the North African country and calls to bring back capital punishment. The body of the young woman, identified as Chaima, was found in early October at a deserted...