Flash back to December 17 when OPEC met in Algeria and announced a record 2.2 million barrel per day production cut. The global economy was in shambles, oil demand was in free fall, the price per barrel had just dipped into the $30s and oil-producing stat

The Algerian interior minister Monday denied allegations of human rights abuses contained in a U.S. State Department report and advised Washington to “sweep its own doorstep,” referring to the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Security forces have killed 120 militants linked to al-Qaida in Algeria over the past six months and arrested 322, the government said Sunday.

Algeria’s official news agency says President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has announced the cancellation of 41 billion dinars ($5.2 billion/euro4.1 billion) in total debts owed by the nation’s farmers and livestock raisers.

A ranking Algerian diplomat suspected in the 1987 murder of a dissident in Paris is free to go home, three months after Algeria called him a hostage of France.

Al-Qaida’s North African offshoot claimed responsibility Thursday for the killing of nine security guards near an Algerian power facility, as well as eight other deadly attacks this month.

A bomb attack killed nine security guards and injured three in northern Algeria near a power facility, officials and Algerian media said Monday.

Local officials say a bomb has killed nine people and injured three in northern Algeria.

Companies doing an underwater survey for a gas pipeline between Algeria and Italy say they have discovered a French battleship sunk by a German submarine in 1917.

Al-Qaida’s North Africa branch claimed Wednesday it is holding hostage a senior U.N. peace envoy, his aide and four tourists kidnapped in the Sahara Desert in recent weeks.