Why Algeria did not want any help dealing with hostage crisis

[RFI]Islamist hostage-takers holding captives, at the In Amenas gas field in Algeria, called on Thursday for the release of Islamist extremists being held in neighbouring Mali.

pIslamist militants seized at least 20 hostages, including as many as seven Americans, at an Algerian natural gas complex Wednesday in a brazen attack linked by the assailants to France?s military inte...

Officials are preparing for "multiple British casualties" after the Algerian hostage crisis, the BBC has learned, as David Cameron postpones a key speech on Europe.

p/pAs is often the case with militant groups operating in the Arabic-speaking world, the one that seized a gas field in eastern Algeria appears to have some links to al-Qaeda. But those links, based on...

pLONDON ? The Algerian government on Thursday launched a high-stakes military strike against Islamist militants who took scores of hostages including Americans at an international gas complex in the Sa...

A number of people are killed in an Algerian military raid to free hostages at a desert gas plant, as at least four foreign hostages are freed, state media report.

[Magharebia]Algiers -Algeria says it stands behind Malian authorities in their fight against terrorism.

Islamist militants have attacked and occupied a gas facility in Algeria, killing two people, one of them British, and seizing some 20 foreign workers.

pPARIS ? Islamist guerrillas seized a number of hostages, including Americans, in a brazen attack early Wednesday on a remote gas-production facility in Algeria, and the United States vowed to take all...