Algeria’s Failing State - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Bruce Riedel

Bruce Riedel

Oct 28, 2013

Algeria's President and head of the Armed Forces Abdelaziz Bouteflika (L) attends a graduation ceremony of the 40th class of the trainees army officers at a Military Academy in Cherchell 90 km west of Algiers June 27, 2012. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina(ALGERIA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR348ML — Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika attends a graduation ceremony at a Military Academy in Cherchell, June 27, 2012. — REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) and British Prime Minister David Cameron (2nd R) review the honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Algiers January 30, 2013. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi (ALGERIA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3D62J

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Bruce Riedel

The Algerian Republican Guard is seen in front of the Presidential Palace in Algiers October 16, 2014. Algeria's government has reached a deal to end a three-day protest by police officers who had staged a sit-in outside President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's office demanding better working conditions, Prime Minister Adelmalek Sellal said on Wednesday. "The government will meet next Sunday to address their demands, particularly the finance related ones," Sellal told state television after meeting with a delegatio

Algeria's winter of discontent

Bruce Riedel

Algeria's President and head of the Armed Forces Abdelaziz Bouteflika (2nd R), Army Chief of Staff General Ahmed Gaid Salah(R) and Abdelmalek Guenaizia (2nd L), Minister Delegate to the Defence ministry attend a graduation ceremony of the 40th class of trainee army officers at a Military Academy in Cherchell 90 km west of Algiers June 27 ,2012.REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina(ALGERIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) - GM1E86S088701

Algeria’s army moves from arbiter to central player in politics

Ghada Hamrouche

Ghada Hamrouche

Algeria's Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal holds a news conference in Algiers January 21, 2013. Sellal said a total of 37 foreign workers died, seven still missing; 29 militants had been killed and three captured alive in the siege, in a hostage crisis at an Algerian desert gas plant, which Algerian forces ended on Saturday by storming the plant. Sellal also told a news conference that a Canadian had coordinated the attack by Islamists on the site near the Libyan border. REUTERS/Stringer (Algeria - Tags: CI

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