Algeria and its president Abdelaziz Bouteflika have weathered the storm of Arab Spring revolutions that toppled governments in many surrounding countries. The Atlantic Council's Karim Mezran writes, however, that the country "may be teetering on the brink of a crisis, with the ...

The office of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced that the president suffered a small stroke, revealing the reason for the president being airlifted to a French military hospital outside of Paris on Saturday.  The public statement, a first from ...

The Department of State's annual country reports on human rights practices details restrictions on the freedom of assembly and association, lack of judicial independence, and overuse of pretrial detention that continue to tarnish the Algerian government's record in 2012 ...

Demonstrators marching for "our rights and freedoms" protested against planned industrial relations laws and high unemployment in the Moroccan capital Rabat on Sunday. Nearly 30,000 demonstrators took to the streets ahead of plans by Prime Minister ...

To mark the 2nd anniversary of the Arab Spring, the Woodrow Wilson Center released a report, titled "Has the Arab Spring Lived up to Expectations?" The report features opinions from 39 experts from the Middle East, North Africa, ...

A week after the first ever U.S.-Algeria Strategic Dialogue took place, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travelled to Algeria with State Department officials to discuss how best to strengthen the U.S.-Algerian relationship amid concerns over the situation in Mali. “Algeria’s ...

Following a call by Mauritania and Algeria for dialogue, the State Department confirmed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Algeria next week to address concerns over the crisis in Mali. In Washington, the Senate Intelligence Committee 

King Mohammed VI of Morocco announced his country's commitment to talks on Western Sahara, offering to grant an autonomous status within its sovereignty. However, the Polisario Front, which is fighting for independence and supported by Algeria, rejected the proposal. ...

During his address to the U.N. General Assembly, Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci called for new limits on the freedom of expression. He suggested that the U.N. should take a lead role in such an effort by providing a forum ...

On September 27, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki addressed the U.N. General Assembly calling on the international community to address "violence and extremism," while also acknowledging the economic and social problems his government inherited as a result of the ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay included Bahrain among the 16 nations accused of allowing government members to undertake "reprisals and intimidation against individuals" critical of regimes. Pillay said, "People may be threatened or harassed by ...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika appointed Abdelmalek Sellal as Algeria's new prime minister, replacing Ahmed Ouyahia, who had held the post since 2008. Sellal took office Tuesday promising to push ahead with reforms, four months after parliamentary polls, and ahead of the ...

The BBC has published a brief overview of uprisings across the Middle East, from the incremental reform movement in Morocco, to the sectarian clashes in Bahrain. In Egypt, the BBC reports that protests were "driven by poverty, rising prices, ...

With four months elapsed since Algeria's legislative elections in May and no new government yet named, politicians from several parties are expressing  frustration and concern for what many call an unprecedented government absence, even for Ramadan. "There is ...

The three-party Islamist coalition, the Green Algeria Alliance, faces possible dissolution as one of its parties, the Movement of Society for Peace, reels from internal turmoil. Amar Ghoul of the Movement recently resigned and at least 20 MPs loyal to ...

Algerian community guards in the province of Boumerdes held  a sit-in Tuesday outside their provincial headquarters to demand their pay from the month of June. The supplementary police force accused the government of suspending their pay because of their involvement in ...