The Latest Breaking News from Algeria

Algeria said on Thursday it was suspending foreign trade in products and services with Spain as of June 9, Radio Algeria International reported, part of an escalating dispute over the status of Western Sahara. The move comes after the country suspended on Wednesday a 20-year-old friendship treaty with Spain that…

Spain said it will firmly defend its national interests following Algeria's decision to suspend a 20-year-old treaty of friendship and cooperation and ban all non-gas trade, a move that also alarmed EU officials.

The jailed brother of Algeria's late president Abdelaziz Bouteflika received an eight-year prison sentence on Monday for corruption, local media reported. Said Bouteflika's co-defendant, construction tycoon Ali Haddad who is also already in prison on other charges, was sentenced to four years, and both received fines. They had been charged…

Reports in the playmaker's homeland claim he could be heading back there but it seems he hasn't made up his mind.

Dar Kanaan Publishing, Damascus, released ‘New Method to Read Historic Texts’, a new book by Palestinian researcher Khaled Hussein Ayoub. “The book features historic texts from Italy, Cyprus, Turkey, Algeria, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine, dating back to the first millennium BC. It showcases the wrong grammar methods that researchers…

An Algerian military officer-turned-democracy activist has been deported from Spain and charged in Algeria in a case that human rights groups see as another sign of an ever-expanding crackdown on dissent

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune discussed in Italy the European need for gas, the renewed clashes in Libya, illegal migration, the instability in the Sahel region, and the war on terrorism. Earlier, Tebboune announced that his country was determined to adopt the Italian experience to establish small and medium enterprises. The…

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a Hamas finance official and a network of financial facilitators and companies that have generated revenue for the Palestinian movement, the Treasury Department said. The sanctions target Hamas' Investment Office, which holds assets estimated to be worth more than $500 million, including…

Egypt’s Interior Ministry, in collaboration with Interpol, is hosting Monday a workshop on confronting emerging terrorist organizations and phenomena in the Middle East and Africa. The workshop is hosted by the Egyptian Police Academy until May 25. The participating countries include Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia,…