Algeria

World Cup 2026: Arab teams offer a master class in grace and solidarity

From offering sweets to stadium staff, to speaking out on Palestine, squads from across the region are leaving their mark on football's biggest stage

World Cup 2026: Ranking some of the best kits from the Middle East and North Africa

How the Strait of Hormuz crisis is reshaping the old world order

Idriss Hadj Nacer

‘No reshape’: Algeria prepares for elections but few hold out hope for change

In Mali, every foreign intervention failed - and jihadists adapted

Omar Ashour

Mali’s new turmoil tests Algerian bid to reclaim mediator role in the Sahel

‘Stopping migration downstream’: Morocco launches mass deportations to block route to Europe

Saudi Arabia and its allies must curb the growing Israeli-Emirati axis

David Hearst

The Middle East and the World Cup: 15 moments which defined football

Pro-Saddam chants at Algeria-Iraq football match spark diplomatic spat

Arabic press review: The two photos causing outrage in Saudi and Jordan

Arabic press review: Assad's secret Syrian prison unearthed

Arabic press review: Well-known cleric latest arrest in Saudi Arabia

Arabic press review: Saddam scam goes bust

Algerian police: After the purge, a restructuring

Arabic press review: Hamas to ground Gaza’s kites

Arabic press review: 'I am a Palestinian,' says football legend Maradona

Arabic press review: Iraqi militia fighters want to back Houthis against Riyadh

Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia should bid to host the 2030 World Cup

Max Gallien

Algeria suffers a long hot summer of political scandal - again