Terrence G Peterson's book explores how 'pacifying' Algerian society became a focus of the French campaign against ...
A still from the film "Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels" about Stevan Labudović, the man who documented Algeria's war for independence from France. Photo courtesy of Mila Turajlic Dec.
July 5 marks the 50th anniversary of Algeria’s independence from France — the latter had ruled the former as a colony since 1830. The bitter, eight-year-long war that paved the way for Algerian ...
The Algerian War of Independence wasn’t just a rebellion—it was a turning point for modern warfare and colonial rule. France fought to hold onto Algeria at all costs, while insurgents used tactics ...
PARIS, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Nearly 50 years after Algeria won independence from France, the unhealed wounds of the war of decolonisation keep wrenching at French society and could play a key role in the ...
An increasingly tense dispute between Paris and Algiers has spiralled into what French diplomatic sources told Euronews is the “biggest diplomatic crisis” since Algeria gained independence in 1962.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez was keen to respond to statements made by Ségolène Royal, president of the “France-Algeria Association,” who implicitly blamed France for the current relations ...
(Reuters) - A fresh diplomatic row was brewing between France and Algeria on Thursday, with a war veterans' leader calling on Paris to apologize for its colonial past before a visit by President ...
Dec. 7 (UPI) --An English translator and anticolonial activist who championed efforts that led to the United Nations resolution ending Algeria's war of independence from France blasted Israel's war in ...