About 10 Britons are thought to remain at risk in the hostage situation at the gas plant in Algeria, the BBC understands.

Hundreds of hostages have been freed from militants at a gas facility in Algeria, state media say, but about 30 foreigners remain unaccounted for.

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Algiers -Islamist militants who seized Westerners at an Algerian gas plant are demanding a safe passage to nearby Libya, authorities said, as fallout from the French offensive in ...

[Magharebia]Algiers -Radical Islamists say they attacked Algeria in retaliation for the international intervention in Mali.

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...