The Attack Attack on Mers-el-Kébir ( 3 July 1940 ) also known as the Battle Military_operation of Mers-el-Kébir , was part of Operation Military_operation Catapult , a British naval attack Attack on French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir on the coast of French Algeria .

On 27 November 1942 , after Operation Military_operation Torch , the Allied invasion Attack of Morocco and French Algeria had begun Process_start , the French navy foiled Removing a German attempt to capture Conquering the rest of the French fleet ( Operation Military_operation Anton ) by scuttling Destroying their ships in Toulon Harbour .

These events led Causation the Iranian government to enter negotiations Communication with the U.S. , with Algeria acting as a mediator .

The Second Barbary War ( 1815 ) or the U.S.–Algerian war was fought Hostile_encounter between the United States and the North African Barbary Coast states of Tripoli , Tunis , and Ottoman Algeria .

However , Dey Omar Agha of Algeria repudiated Agree_or_refuse_to_act the US treaty , refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to accept the terms of peace that had been ratified Ratification by the Congress of Vienna , and threatened Warning the lives of all Christian inhabitants of Algiers .

Allied thrusts overran Vichy French Morocco and Algeria and advanced Self_motion into Tunisia .

The poor state Statement of the roads and rail lines in Algeria meant that Allied forces Military_operation faced Confronting_problem difficult logistic challenges Competition which enabled Preventing_or_letting the Axis to prolong a defence Defending .

However , this practice Practice did not end Process_end completely until the French conquest Conquering of Algeria .

The Bouhalouane train crash Catastrophe was a fatal Killing railway accident that happened Presence at Bouhalouane in Algeria on January 27 , 1982 at 01:30 and killed Killing 131 people .

A passenger train travelling Traveling from Oran to the capital Algiers and consisting Containing of a locomotive and eight carriages stalled on a steep gradient leading to a mountain pass a few kilometres beyond the town of Bouhalouane in the Chlef Province of Algeria .

The final death Death toll was 131 people , with 200 injured Bodily_harm , resulting Causation as Algeria 's deadliest rail disaster Catastrophe .

The Algiers putsch Change_of_leadership ( or ) , also known as the Generals ' putsch Change_of_leadership ( `` Putsch des généraux '' ) , was a failed coup Change_of_leadership d'état intended to force Request French President Charles de Gaulle not to abandon GiveUp French Algeria , along with the resident European community and pro-French Muslims .

The coup Change_of_leadership was to come in two phases : an assertion of control Control in French Algeria 's major cities Algiers , Oran and Constantine .

The In Amenas hostage Kidnapping crisis began Process_start on 16 January 2013 , when al-Qaeda-linked terrorists affiliated Connect with a brigade led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar took Conquering expat hostages at the Tigantourine gas facility near In Amenas , Algeria .

Sustained street demonstrations Social_event took place Process_start in Morocco , Iraq , Algeria , Iranian Khuzestan , Lebanon , Jordan , Kuwait , Oman and Sudan .

Recent uprisings Change_of_leadership in Sudan and Algeria show Communication that the conditions that started Process_start the Arab Spring are not going away Departing and political movements against authoritarianism and exploitation are still occurring Coming_to_be .

Beginning Process_start in 1975 , the Polisario Front , backed and supported Supporting by Algeria , waged a 16-year-long war for independence against Mauritania and Morocco .

French efforts were made Manufacturing more difficult due to the limited Limiting usefulness of armored tanks in a jungle environment , lack of strong air forces for air cover and carpet bombing Attack , and use Using of foreign recruits from other French colonies ( mainly from Algeria , Morocco and even Vietnam ) .

Following several decades of unsuccessful petitioning Request through the United Nations and the International Court of Justice for Namibian independence , SWAPO formed Creating the PLAN in 1962 with material assistance Assistance from the Soviet Union , the People 's Republic of China , and sympathetic African states such as Tanzania , Ghana , and Algeria .

The fleet Motion bombarded Attack various fortified pirate cities in present-day Libya , Tunisia , and Algeria , ultimately extracting Getting concessions of fair passage from their rulers .

Algeria defeated Conquering Senegal 1–0 in the final Competition , winning Getting their second title and first since 1990 , while Nigeria came third after beating Competition Tunisia 1–0 in their third-place play-off match Competition .

The Algerian Civil War Hostile_encounter was a civil Hostile_encounter war Hostile_encounter in Algeria fought Hostile_encounter between the Algerian Government and various Islamic rebel groups from 26 December 1991 ( following a coup negating Preventing_or_letting an Islamist electoral victory Earnings_and_losses ) to 8 February 2002 .

Air Algérie Flight 5017 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso , to Algiers , Algeria , which crashed Catastrophe near Gossi , Mali , on 24 July 2014 .

Morocco had become Becoming a French protectorate in 1912 , and Resident-General Louis-Hubert Lyautey sought to extend French influence eastwards through the Middle Atlas mountains towards French Algeria .

The Vitry-Le-François train bombing Attack of 18 June 1961 was a bomb attack Attack on a Strasbourg–Paris train carried out Action by the Organisation armée secrète ( OAS ) , a paramilitary organization opposed to the independence of Algeria in the Algerian War .

Traditional African footballing nations such as reigning champions Egypt ( also affected Influence by political events ) , as well as Cameroon , Algeria , Nigeria and South Africa had failed Earnings_and_losses to qualify Getting .

Three of the five Islamic leaders , Abdelhamid Abou Zeid , Abdel Krim and Omar Ould Hamaha were killed Killing , while Mokhtar Belmokhtar fled Escaping to Libya and Iyad ag Ghali fled Escaping to Algeria .

Air Algérie Flight 6289 ( AH6289 ) , was a domestic passenger flight which crashed Catastrophe on 6 March 2003 , at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Algeria , killing Killing all but one of the 103 people on board .

The invasion marked Recording the end of several centuries of Ottoman rule in Algeria and the beginning of French Algeria .

The invasion marked Recording the end of several centuries of Ottoman rule in Algeria and the beginning of French Algeria .

In 1848 , the territories conquered Conquering around Algiers were organised Arranging into three départements , defining the territories of modern Algeria .

A ceasefire agreement was signed on Sign_agreement 19 February 2015 in Algiers , Algeria , but sporadic terrorist Terrorism attacks Attack still occur Coming_to_be .