Reflecting on his pathbreaking history of Algeria’s National Liberation Front (FLN), first published in 1980, the Marxist historian and Algerian militant Mohammed Harbi wrote that his main goal had ...

Learn more about the African nation, their fixtures, coach, World Cup history, plus record appearance-makers and goal-scorers at the global tournament. Algeria promise to be among the teams to watch ...

Eighty years ago this week, as jubilant crowds in Europe celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany, French forces launched a ferocious colonial crackdown in eastern Algeria where demonstrators had dared ...