For the second time in two years, a blanket of snow covered parts of the Sahara Desert in northern Africa, creating a rare ...

At that moment, across Algeria, some 30 fellagha bands fell ... The road to Batna, metropolis of the Aures Mountains, was strewn with sabotaged telegraph poles and bloated dead cattle.

"[The heat] is coming from over the mountain. I've never seen fires like this," he said, squinting into the distance. Forest fires are not a new phenomenon for Algeria, and the north-eastern ...

Mandela also traveled to the mountains of Algeria where in 1961 he participated in a joint boot camp between the African National Congress fighters and the Algerian National Liberation Army.