World | Greg Miller | January 29, 2009
The CIA has removed its station chief in Algeria from his post amid an investigation by the Justice Department of allegations that the officer drugged and raped two Algerian women, according to current and former U.
World | January 19, 2008
The U.S. Embassy in Algiers on Friday ordered its employees to tightly restrict their movements and urged other Americans in the North African country to do the same, citing indications of possible terrorist attacks.
World | Sebastian Rotella | December 19, 2007
The twin suicide bombings in Algeria's capital that took at least 37 lives last week have given the enigmatic militant group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb a sharp burst of publicity.
World | Maggie Farley | December 15, 2007
The U.N. raised the death toll of staffers killed in the car bombing of its Algiers headquarters to 17 on Friday, after rescue workers found more bodies under rubble.
World | Jeffrey Fleishman | December 13, 2007
Algerian officials said Wednesday that the number of dead from a double bomb attack in Algiers had risen to 31, but that figure was disputed by a leading newspaper, which cited hospital sources as estimating that 72 people were killed.
World | Jeffrey Fleishman | December 12, 2007
Two bombs that killed at least 26 people, including 11 United Nations workers, in the Algerian capital on Tuesday were orchestrated by a resurgent Al Qaeda-linked group seeking to overthrow North African governments, Algerian authorities said.
World | October 10, 2007
The deputy chief of Al Qaeda's North Africa wing, believed to be the group's operational leader, was killed along with two other rebels in a gun battle with Algerian troops, local newspapers said.