1 December 2014 Last updated at 17:37 GMT Yacine Brahimi has been voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2014. The 24-year-old midfielder becomes the first Algerian to win the award, which is dec...

A Tunisian policeman has been beheaded by Islamist militants in an attack near the Algerian border, officials say.

France's defence council is to convene after the beheading in Algeria of French tourist Herve Gourdel by militants linked to Islamic State.

Only the seventh time Palestine has submitted film to the Academy Awards. The Palestinian Ministry of Culture has submitted Najwa Najjar?s Eyes of a Thief for consideration in the Best Foreign Language...

I jihadisti mostrano la decapitazione dell'ostaggio in Algeria

French tourist Herve Gourdel, who has been beheaded by Algerian militant group Jund al-Khilafa following his abduction in the north-east Kabylie region, was a 55-year-old qualified mountain guide. He w...

Fighters linked to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant post video purporting to show beheading of abductee in Algeria.

[Algerie Presse Service]Algiers -Minister of Industry and Mining Abdesselam Bouchouareb denied Thursday the holding of talks between Algeria and the world's steel leader ArcelorMittal over the project ...

An obscure Algerian extremist group that...

[Algerie Presse Service]Algiers -A Soukhoi bomber belonging to the Algerian Air Force crashed Monday afternoon during a training exercise at the air proving ground in Hassi Bahbah (First military regio...