March 18 marks the signing of the Evian Accords, which ended French colonial rule in Algeria after 130 years. The agreement called for a ceasefire in the eight-year war between France and Algeria for ...
Ali Boumendjel, a nationalist and lawyer, was arrested during the battle of Algiers by the French army, "placed incommunicado, tortured, and then killed on 23 March 1957," President Macron tells ...