The Algerian War of Independence wasn’t just a rebellion—it was a turning point for modern warfare and colonial rule. France ...

France will speed up the declassification of secret defense archives, including those related to its war with Algeria, as it continues to grapple with its colonial history. France colonized Algeria ...

PARIS (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 2012 ...

Millions of voters elected an Islamic political party to run the country, but the military stepped in, forced out the winners of the election and handpicked a group of politicians in their place. No, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel ...

QUANTICO -- School of Advanced Warfighting, Marine Corps University, Quantico. Basement seminar room; April 11-14; two hours. QUANTICO -- Until the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military wasn't much ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A film billed as the French "Platoon" uses Hollywood-style action cinema to relate one of the most painful episodes in recent French history, the brutal Algerian war of independence.

On both sides of the broad Algerian boulevard stood columns of red-bereted French paratroopers, Tommy guns slung across their chests. Inside the square 15,000 Algerians—Moslem and European —gazed ...

For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s ...

Journal of Social History, Vol. 53, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: TRADE UNION NETWORKS AND THE POLITICS OF EXPERTISE IN AN AGE OF AFRO-ASIAN SOLIDARITY (Winter 2019), pp. 454-486 (33 pages) During the late ...