ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A court in Algeria on Thursday sentenced an award-winning French-Algerian writer to five years in prison over remarks that questioned the borders dividing Algeria from ...

Algeria has sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in prison on charges of “undermining national unity”. A court in Dar El Beida, near Algiers, sentenced the author on ...

Algiers (AFP) – An Algerian court on Thursday sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, whose case has been at the heart of a diplomatic storm, to five years behind bars, an AFP ...

In addition to what French officials called the “symmetrically” calibrated expulsion of 12 Algerian officials, France’s ambassador to Algiers also was being recalled home for consultations ...

France says it will expel 12 Algerian diplomatic and consular staff members and has recalled its ambassador from Algiers, deepening a crisis that threatens to unravel months of attempted ...

The latest rift comes days after tentative steps had been made to mend relations Algeria has asked 12 French embassy staff to leave the country within 48 hours, France's foreign minister has said.

Algeria summoned the French ambassador after prosecutors in France indicted a consular official on suspicion of involvement in the April 2024 abduction of Algerian influencer Amir Boukhors in a ...

The move followed expulsions of French officials by Algeria after an Algerian official was accused of kidnapping an influencer who had been granted political asylum in France. By Roger Cohen and ...

March 18 (UPI) --France has vowed to retaliate after Algeria refused to take back some of its nationals that Paris seeks to ...

France's foreign minister on Tuesday slammed Algeria's decision to expel 12 French officials and warned of a riposte, as tensions mounted between Paris and its former North African colony. Jean ...

Algeria has asked 12 French embassy staff to leave the country within 48 hours, France's foreign minister has said. Jean-Noël Barrot added that it was linked to the indictment of three Algerians ...