ALGIERS (Reuters) - From cutlass and canon to earthquake and flood, powerful forces have long done damage to the Algiers Casbah, fabled bastion of Barbary pirates who plied the Mediterranean for ...

If you can’t lick ’em, enjoin them. That, sadly, was the retrograde attitude of the ruling Algerian military in January 1992 when it canceled the second part of two-part elections because an Islamic ...

From cutlass and canon to earthquake and flood, powerful forces have long done damage to the Algiers Casbah, fabled bastion of Barbary pirates who plied the Mediterranean for centuries in defiance of ...

But the deadliest of the many blows suffered by Algiers' disintegrating old quarter may actually be contemporary -- neglect by successive governments of modern Algeria. The few outsiders who visit ...