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Algeria’s Bouteflika to seek fifth presidential term
Feb 10, 2019 11:36Algeria's ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is to seek a fifth term in April elections, state media announced Sunday, despite health issues that have kept him largely out of the public eye for years.
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Saudi crown prince snubbed in Algeria
Dec 04, 2018 10:57Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has postponed a planned visit to Jordan after getting the cold shoulder in Algeria, where President Abdelaziz Bouteflika scrapped a meeting with him, citing flu.
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Iran willing to boost ties with Algeria
Nov 02, 2018 02:30President Hassan Rouhani congratulated Algeria on its Revolution Day, hoping for growing relations with the North African nation in various fields.
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Bomb attack kills child in northern Algeria, injures five others
Aug 19, 2018 04:05A terrorist bomb attack has killed one child and critically injured several others in the Northern Algerian Province of Bouira.
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Algeria stops expelling refugees into Sahara after condemnation
Jul 14, 2018 12:16Algeria has nearly stopped the expulsions of refugees into the Sahara Desert after widespread anger and the dismissal of several senior security officials.
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Iran rejects Morocco’s claim of ties with Polisario Front as baseless
May 02, 2018 08:39Iran has firmly rejected Morocco’s allegation of ties between Tehran’s Embassy in Algeria and the Polisario Front, a Western Sahara separatist movement.
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More than 250 dead after military plane crash in Algeria
Apr 11, 2018 09:09More than 250 people have been killed in an Algerian military transport plane crash near the capital, Algiers.
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Algerians vote in elections with little hope of change
Nov 23, 2017 14:08Algerians trickled to the polls Thursday to vote in local elections after a low-key campaign that has brought no expectation of change in the North African state.
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Arab states spent $130bn to destroy Syria, Libya, Yemen: Algerian PM
Nov 12, 2017 09:05Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia says some regional Arab states have spent $130 billion to obliterate Syria, Libya and Yemen.
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Algeria says Syria must return to Arab League
Sep 24, 2017 10:13Algeria has urged Syria’s return to the Arab League, and asked Persian Gulf Arab states involved in a diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and Qatar to work towards mending their ties.