A plan to restore the Ottoman-era district offended some for inviting help from the French, former colonizers. But the famed warren continues to decay.

A file of soldiers wearing red berets and paratroop uniforms edged through the narrow, dark alleys of Algiers' casbah. A shot from a rooftop tumbled one of the soldiers onto the garbage-strewn ...

The iconic, mazelike Casbah neighborhood in Algiers is disintegrating under the pressure of civil wars, earthquakes and overpopulation. Disintegrating along with it is a wealth of architectural ...

To the Casbah. Hot-tempered students and war veterans ordered a general protest strike. Roaming the city in small commando units, some on motor scooters with girl friends behind, they forced ...

Rock the Casbah: Algeria’s deep Jewish connection Don’t expect flights from Tel Aviv to Algiers opening up any time soon - there are no Jewish communities left in the country.

Out of date safety fears and a lack of promotion gives Algeria the rank of 118th out of 136 countries in terms of tourism. But to overlook Africa’s largest country is to miss out.

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 ...

A year later, in his autobiography, which he titled Rock la Casbah, Taha returned to the theme: “I have the unpleasant sensation that the French culture is in decline, I am all the more saddened ...

From cutlass and canon to earthquake and flood, powerful forces have long done damage to the Algiers Casbah, fabled bastion of Barbary pirates.

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 ...