Algeria will be celebrating its 60th independence anniversary on July 5th, 2022. Algeria gained its independence following what is known as "The Algerian War of Independence" with France, its colonial ...

Philippe Faucon Directors’ Fortnight entry Les Harkis is another movie about French imperialism. This time it’s set in Algeria during the Algerian War of Independence from 1954 to 1962 between France ...

A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Sir Alistair Horne. Blackstone Audio Books, Ashland, Oregon, 2008. Originally published by Viking Press, New York, 1977. 584 pages. There are some books ...

Hundreds of thousands of Algerian Muslims -- known as Harkis -- served as auxiliaries in the French army during the war for Algerian independence - Copyright AFP/File ...

PARIS — Algeria’s first post-independence president, Ahmed Ben Bella, who died Wednesday at the age of 95, was a charismatic revolutionary who fought alongside the French during World War II before ...

July 5 marks the 50th anniversary of Algeria’s independence from France — the latter had ruled the former as a colony since 1830. The bitter, eight-year-long war that paved the way for Algerian ...