Residents of Tiaret, a city of around 200,000 people 340 kilometres ... "I was given a warm welcome today. Every Algerian has the right to rejoice and enjoy themselves," she said.

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal – who was arrested in mid-November in Algiers – has been placed under a detention order for alleged threats to state security, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

as columns of troops marched past the city's largest mosque, drawing applause from thousands of spectators. Algeria's bloody eight-year war for independence after more than a century of French ...