Alger News

Algeria overturned the Arab Spring's revolutionary narrative with elections that bolstered the longtime ruling party and dashed Islamists' hopes of gaining power.

A motorcyclist was injured critically in a crash that closed both lanes of northbound Interstate 5 in southern Whatcom County on Sunday afternoon, May 13.

The El Khabar newspaper, considered close to Algerian security services, reported that a convoy carrying members of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa was hit Sunday near the Malian border.

Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, Nouredine Benissad said that despite the lifting of the state of emergency in February, the regime is using its same oppressive methods against those it opposes.