Al Jazeera English
| Mar 2, 2013
Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al-Qaeda commander behind a bloody mass hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant earlier this year, Chad's military has said. The Chadian army said that Belmokhtar was killed during an op...
Euronews
| Jan 21, 2013
Afghanistan-trained one-eyed Algerian terror mastermind Mokhtar Belmokhtar has claimed responsibiiity for the gas-plant kidnapping operation. He's known as the"Marlboro Man" because of an extensive cigarette smuggling operation, reports Euronews. ...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 21, 2013
International teams are now being allowed access to the Algerian gas facility stormed by terrorists last week. A total of 37 foreign hostages from eight different countries (including three from the US), along with 11 Algerian workers, were killed...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Jan 20, 2013
A British survivor of the Algerian hostage crisis has told how he fled the besieged BP Algerian gas complex in a "Great Escape" style scene after hiding from the terrorists for more than a day.
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 20, 2013
The hostage death toll in Algeria has climbed to 37 foreign nationals after investigators found more bodies, including nine Japanese workers, Reuters is reporting. Meanwhile, a chilling audiotape has surfaced with one of the kidnappers vowing on t...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 19, 2013
The Algerian government says 32 fighters and 23 captives have been killed during a three-day military operation to end the hostage crisis at a natural gas plant in the Sahara. The provisional death toll was issued by the Algerian interior ministry...
Euronews
| Jan 19, 2013
Algerian special forces have killed 11 rebels in what is described as a final assault to retake the In Amenas gas facility. The state news agency APS says seven foreign hostages have been killed by militants. That brings to between 19 and 37 the n...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 18, 2013
Algerian forces say they have freed hundreds of captives in an ongoing hostage crisis at a gas plant in the southeast. More than two dozen fighters have also been killed.
But Algerian media reports say at least 30 people are still unaccounted for...
Euronews
| Jan 18, 2013
The Algerian raid that left an unknown number of hostages dead during the ongoing crisis has provoked international anger among countries not informed or consulted. Algeria says the action freed "a significant number" of hostages, but 60 are still...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Jan 18, 2013
As details of the Algerian hostage crisis remained murky, British PM David Cameron warned the public should brace for bad news. An unknown number of hostages were killed when the Algerian military raided the seized Sahara gas facility and British ...
— Mar 19 at 10:26 am
...be announced this week. The move was spurred by the murder of two school children last week in Constantine. On Sunday, thousands of Constantine ...
— Apr 12 at 03:58 am
...consulted in order to pinpoint "the weaknesses of Algerian schools and to understand the reasons why the latest reforms introduced in 2003 faile...
— Dec 27, 2012 at 04:33 am
...make other authorized use of this material, click here. The United States is pressing for Algerian backing in a pending military action ... The ...
— May 3 at 11:09 am
...stands. The huge turnout prevented many fans from getting a seat, even though they had tickets. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika also mis...
Algeria, officially The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast. Its capital and most populous city is Algiers. Algeria is a semi presidential republic, it consists of 48 provinces and 1541 communes. With a population exceeding 37 million, it is the 34th most populated country on Earth. With an economy based on oil resources, manufacturing has suffered from what is called Dutch disease. Sonatrach, the national oil company, is the largest company in Africa. Algeria has the second largest army with the largest defense budget in Africa. Algeria had a peaceful Nuclear Program by the 1990s.
With a total area of 2,381,741 square kilometres, Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest in Africa and in the Mediterranean. The country is bordered in the northeast by Tunisia, in the east by Libya, in the west by Morocco, in the southwest by Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Mali, in the southeast by Niger, and in the north by the Mediterranean Sea. Algeria is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, OPEC and the United Nations, and is a founding member of the Arab Maghreb Union.
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