Video: A hostage’s story
Irish Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore spoke with CNN about the Irish citizen who is reported to have escaped from the Algerian hostage crisis: Stephen McFaul. Gilmore recounts some of the more...
View ArticleFirst-hand hostage accounts from the attack in Algeria
About 32 foreign hostages are still unaccounted for in the standoff with Islamist militants at an Algerian gas plant, according to the Algerian state news service. In statements Friday, London-based...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Algeria crisis, with help from David Cameron
British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a speech before the House of Commons Friday morning, laid out what could be the clearest narrative yet of Algeria’s hostage crisis from an official source. His...
View ArticleA hostage crisis haunted by the ghosts of Algeria’s bloody past
On June 29, 1992, a gaunt septuagenarian named Mohamed Boudiaf made his first and last trip beyond the capital as Algeria’s head of state. A hero of the 1950s war for independence against France,...
View ArticleWeekend movie recommendations: Conflict and history in Algeria
This week’s hostage crisis in Algeria, in which Islamist militants seized a gas complex in the Saharan desert, was in many ways rooted in the country’s complex and often traumatic history. The story of...
View ArticleBP chief: Four workers in Algeria unaccounted for
BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley confirmed Saturday that 14 of the company’s 18 workers at the In Amenas plant in Algeria are safe, but the company is unable to confirm the whereabouts of the other four....
View ArticleWhat the Osama bin Laden raid discovered on al-Qaeda’s links in Algeria
The disaster in Algeria this week began when militants seized a remote, multinational gas complex in the desert and ended when the Algerian military staged a guns-blazing “rescue” attempt. Dozens of...
View ArticleLooking for al-Qaeda in Algeria
Perhaps the most significant question surrounding last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria, reportedly masterminded by a 40-year-old Islamist militant named Mokhtar Belmokhtar, has to do with the role of...
View ArticleAlgeria, lost in translation
The North African country of Algeria, a former French colony that endured an awful civil war in the 1990s, doesn’t make it into the English-language news as often as its neighbors. Unlike Iraq or...
View ArticleWould Saddam Hussein have survived the Arab Spring?
Bobby Ghosh, a Time reporter who made his name covering the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and subsequent war, revisits a counterfactual theory that’s been floating around since the Iraq War first began 10...
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Is the Algeria hostage crisis really al-Qaeda?
As is often the case with militant groups operating in the Arabic-speaking world, the one that seized a gas field in eastern Algeria appears to have some links to al-Qaeda. But those links, based on...
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Algeria was worried about cheating students, so it blocked Facebook and Twitter
Algeria has become the latest country in the Middle East and North Africa region to block Facebook and Twitter in a bid to stop students from cheating on exams. According to Algerian officials, prior...
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