Algeria’s war for independence: 60 years on. Algerians remember the struggle to gain their freedom from French colonialism – and the example it sets for today.

In May 1945 the French state committed a massacred thousands in Sétif, Algeria after a street demonstration marking the end of the Second World War adopted anti-colonial demands. Members of the French ...

Last spring, the French still had some 330,000 of their own troops and some 140,000 Muslims serving with them in Algeria; the Muslims were divided into regular troops (about 60,000) and ...

Prior to World War II, the French Army adopted the MAS-38 submachine gun, a truly compact weapon that was chambered for the 7.65mm Longue cartridge, which was also used in the newly introduced ...

This past weekend, Paris marked the 60th anniversary of one of the darkest moments in its recent history — a terrible moment that reminds both French Muslims and French Jews of their fragile ...

The Algerian F.L.N. army emerged last week from seven years of obscure guerilla war with France. At once tightly guarded Camp Ben M’hidi, near the Moroccan border town of Oudjda. newsmen ...

For historian Benjamin Stora, a leading specialist in French colonisation and the Algerian war of independence, ... With each side sticking to their guns, ...

For France, the trauma of the Algerian War (1954-1962) was not unlike the experience of the Vietnam War for the United States. But, unlike the conflict in Vietnam, few photographic documents exist ...