Algeria's army, the heart of an opaque regime, exercised power from the shadows until it was thrust into the limelight with mass protests and the April departure of president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

At least 181 people were killed when a military plane carrying soldiers crashed soon after takeoff in a farm field in northern Algeria on Wednesday, officials said. The cause of the crash was unclear, ...

ALGIERS, May (Reuters) - Fearing armed chaos in neighbouring Libya and renewed conflict in Mali, Algeria's army is shifting focus from fighting Islamist militants at home to the Sahel border smuggling ...

AIN AMENAS, Algeria (AP) — The militants had filled five jeeps with hostages and begun to move when Algerian government attack helicopters opened up on them, leaving four in smoking ruins. The ...

Algeria has begun delivering military equipment to Mali as part of strengthened military cooperation between the neighboring countries, Agence France Presse reported. The move followed a recent visit ...

An Algerian Hercules C130 military transporter has crashed in the mountainous area of Oum al-Bouaghi close to the Tunisian border. All 103 on board were killed according to local media. The Hercules ...

Reports are still murky at best, but the Algerian military operation on the desert gas plant where foreign and local hostages were being held by an al Qaeda-linked group appears to be over. That doesn ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A military plane carrying soldiers and their families crashed soon after takeoff in a farm field in northern Algeria on Wednesday, killing 257 people in what appeared to be the ...

In the wake of a deadly incident involving Algerian military forces, the Sahrawis for Peace Movement — a dissident faction from the Polisario Front — has issued an urgent letter to UN envoy Staffan de ...

Mali’s transitional government has formally accused the Algerian military of shooting down a Malian surveillance drone near the shared border between the two countries. The incident occurred in the ...