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Algeria (, '; '), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (, '), also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a large country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.
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Algeria overturned the Arab Spring's revolutionary narrative with elections that bolstered the longtime ruling party and dashed Islamists' hopes of gaining power.
The vote did something else, too: It burnished Algeria's democratic image with Western allies who rely on it to fight terrorism and supply natural gas.Few people turned out to vote in last week's elections, and the result did little to boost Algerian rulers' legitimacy at home. But analysts say Algeria needed to hold elections to show it was at least somewhat democratic in the midst of a region-wide push for greater freedoms."Algeria has satisfactory relations with Washington and Paris," said Hugh Roberts, an expert on the country at Boston's Tufts University. "It needs to do well enough (with reform) not to embarrass its Western partners, and that's what it's done."In contrast to the uprisings and game-changing elections that have taken place elsewhere in North Africa over the past year, the political system in Algeria has b...A new Algerian opposition front of 14 small political parties has announced it will boycott the new parliament, calling its election fraudulent.Algeria's May 10 legi...
The European Union observer mission Saturday called Algeria's elections an important step toward reform, even as the opposition denounced the overwhelming win by gov...
An Algerian Islamist died in a Moroccan jail after a two-month hunger strike protesting torture and his living conditions, rights activists said Sunday.Ahmed Ben Mil...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A former Guantanamo detainee who was transferred to his native Algeria earlier this month has been indicted, the Algiers prosecutor's office ...
Hundreds of demonstrators are protesting in Algeria's capital to demand the ouster of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika — but police are out in far larger numbers to co...
ALGIERS, Algeria -- Heavily outnumbered by riot police, thousands of Algerians defied government warnings and dodged barricades to rally in their capital Saturday, d...
The angry and determined men marched on Algeria's Parliament, tossing aside metal police barriers in a bold display of defiance. But these were not disenfranchised y...
ALGIERS, Algeria -- The Algerian president's office agreed Tuesday to lift a 19-year state of emergency in a bid to defuse spiraling and potentially dangerous discon...
Leaders from Algeria and neighboring countries and crowds of mourners have paid homage to the country's first president and a leader in its fight for independence fr...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian security official says a remote-controlled bomb has killed two police officers and wounded 10 civilians east of Algeria's capital...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Four countries in the Sahara desert opened a joint military headquarters Wednesday in an unusual, united effort to combat al-Qaida-linked ter...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Lorient midfielder Yazid Mansouri has been selected as Algeria's World Cup captain.Coach Rabah Saadane selected a 25-man preliminary roster T...
Islamists suffered a surprising defeat in Algeria's parliamentary elections, bucking a trend that saw them gain power across North Africa after Arab Spring uprisings...
Algeria's parliamentary elections on Thursday are being billed as the fairest in 20 years, but Algerians appeared to be showing little interest and even outright sco...
An alliance of Islamist parties expecting a strong showing in Algeria's elections accused authorities Friday of widespread fraud as initial figures pointed to them f...
The Algerian singer Warda, whose sultry voice and range helped make her one of the giants of Arab song, has died. She was 72.Egyptian state TV said Warda died Thursd...
Algeria's first president and one of six historic leaders of the bloody independence struggle from France passed away in his family home in the capital Algiers at th...
Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria's first president and a historic leader of its bloody independence struggle from France, died at his family home in Algiers on Wednesday. He...
In the gritty, working class Algiers suburb of Harrache, activists sporting the green baseball caps of the Islamist "Green" alliance hand out election leaflets outsi...
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