The Algerian war used to be waged between the French army and Moslem rebels fighting for independence. It has cost the lives of 18,000 French soldiers and an estimated 360,000 Moslems. Two million ...

P resident Emmanuel Macron on Friday recognised that Larbi Ben M’hidi, a key figure in Algeria’s War of Independence against France, had been killed by French soldiers after his arrest in 1957 ...

Valérie André, a French aviator and parachutist who became the first woman to become a general officer in France, has died ...

A SENEGALESE VIEW OF THE ALGERIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE "Fighting African ... But what I want to make clear is that I had no choice. As a French soldier, I had to obey the orders.

"French soldiers have nothing ... We take the risks that come with war." What will remain of this in the rewriting of Le Pen's history? What he did in Algeria was not mentioned in eulogies at ...

which shook off French rule in 1962 after a brutal war. A shift last July in France's decades-old position on the disputed Western Sahara region of northern Africa angered Algeria and prompted the ...

"Algeria, The Two Soldiers" tells the true story of two young French soldiers during the Algerian War, who were driven in two completely opposite directions by the same keen sense of honor ...