Algeria's army, the heart of an opaque regime, exercised power from the shadows until it was thrust into the limelight with mass protests and the April departure of president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

It ranks as the 26th most powerful military in the world according to Global Firepower Index, and ranks 22nd in defense spending globally. The People's National Army include the Algerian Land Forces, ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) – Algerian officials say a gendarme died and three more were wounded when an explosive-laden car was driven into their command post in the southern city of Ouargla. A statement ...

ALGIERS, May (Reuters) - Fearing armed chaos in neighbouring Libya and renewed conflict in Mali, Algeria's army is shifting focus from fighting Islamist militants at home to the Sahel border smuggling ...

(Reuters) -Algeria and Mali on Tuesday gave differing accounts of an unmanned aircraft that went down in their desert border region. Algeria's defence ministry said the army shot down an "armed ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A military plane carrying soldiers and their families crashed soon after takeoff in a farm field in northern Algeria on Wednesday, killing 257 people in what appeared to be the ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Mali’s transitional government said Thursday it has filed a case against Algeria at the International Court of Justice, accusing its neighbor of “premeditated destruction” of a ...

Recently, many voices in Tunisia have called for the publication of details of a bilateral security agreement with Algeria, ...