ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — While France celebrated the anniversary of victory over the Nazis on Wednesday, Algeria commemorated a more somber anniversary: The crackdown by French colonial forces on ...

For one, French administrations have historically eschewed recognition of France’s role in the colonization of Algeria, resulting in the deaths of at least 1 million Algerians during its war of ...

French President Francois Hollande said Thursday that Algeria suffered under the “profoundly unjust and brutal system” of colonialism, but he stopped short of apologizing for French rule of ...

ALGIERS, Algeria – Three grainy photos showing French soldiers torturing an Algerian and hanging in an official exhibit in Paris are perhaps the closest public reckoning France has made of the ...

The conviction of Boualem Sansal, an outspoken French and Algerian writer, has worsened tensions between the countries.

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — After decades in a French museum, the skulls of 24 Algerians decapitated for resisting French colonial forces were formally repatriated to Algeria on Friday in an ...

President Francois Hollande acknowledged on Thursday France's colonization of Algeria had been "brutal and unfair" but he stopped short of an apology to the oil-rich North African state that Paris ...

ALGIERS, Algeria — While France celebrated the anniversary of victory over the Nazis on Wednesday, Algeria commemorated a more somber anniversary: The crackdown by French colonial forces on ...

The 24 fought French colonial forces who occupied Algeria in 1830 and took part in an 1849 revolt. After they were decapitated, their skulls were taken to France as trophies.

Algerian politicians have also sought financial reparations over French nuclear tests in the Sahara — and, most importantly, an official apology from France for colonial-era crimes.