ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s Defense Ministry says army forces have ambushed and killed a top militant with links to Al-Qaida. The ministry said Monday army forces relied on local information to ...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria has identified drug trafficking as a top national security threat linked to militancy in the region and put its powerful army in charge of fighting it, interior minister ...

Algeria’s non-participation in this year’s African Lion military exercises is emphatic and rooted primarily in objections to two participating countries: Morocco and Israel. The Algerian military will ...

The chief of staff of the Algerian army, Saïd Chengriha, oversaw a tactical military exercise on Wednesday, May 13, in Béchar ...

Algeria's military has ordered police to block protesters from outside the capital from entering Algiers, the army chief said Wednesday, after months of mass rallies. "I have instructed the national ...

Three Algerian army soldiers on Sunday succumbed to injuries they had sustained in an ambush attack on their patrol in northern Algeria a day earlier, bringing the death toll to 14, according to the ...

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.

ALGIERS, Algeria -- Algerian helicopters and special forces stormed a gas plant in the stony plains of the Sahara on Thursday to wipe out Islamist militants and free hostages from at least 10 ...

Algeria’s defense spending is set to surge to a record 3.35 trillion dinars ($25.1 billion), one of the highest levels in the Middle East and North Africa, as the energy-rich OPEC member girds for ...