Algeria Hostage Crisis

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  Rockets Hit Algeria gas plant in Attack Claimed By Al Qaeda

  Rockets on Friday struck an Algerian gas plant run by foreign energy giants in an attack claimed by Al-Qaeda, three years after a deadly hostage crisis at another facility in the country.

• Al Qaeda commander behind Algeria hostage crisis killed: Chad army

  Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda commander who masterminded a bloody hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant in January, Chad's military said on Saturday.

• Britain's Cameron in Algiers after desert bloodbath

  British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Algeria on Wednesday in the wake of this month's hostage crisis at a gas plant deep in the Sahara in which several Britons were killed.

• Algeria says 37 foreigners die in siege led by Canadian

  A total of 37 foreign workers died at an Algerian desert gas plant and seven are still missing after a hostage crisis coordinated by a Canadian, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday.

• Stubborn streak got French nurse out of Algeria hostage hell

  A French nurse caught up in the Algeria hostage crisis revealed Monday how the fear of being raped and an overwhelming determination "not to submit to terrorists" had ensured she survived.

• Algeria hostage crisis: Reported tape of terrorists threatening to blow up oil complex emerges

  The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed past 80 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the refinery for explosives found dozens more bodies, many so badly disfigured it was unclear whether they were hostages or militants, a security official said.

• Algeria hostage crisis: mastermind preferred money to death

  Moktar Belmoktar is known abroad as the man who orchestrated the abduction of scores of foreigners last week at a BP-operated plant in the remote, eastern corner of Algeria, in a raid that led to many of their deaths.

• Algeria: Survivors recount gunmen's brutal search for foreigners

  As they prowled the In Amenas gas complex for hostages, the gunmen who attacked the Algerian site discovered a brutal but effective tactic to persuade foreign workers to come out of hiding.

• Algeria hostage crisis ends in bloodbath

  Algerian troops stormed a remote gas plant Saturday to end a hostage crisis that killed 23 foreigners and Algerians, seven of them executed by their Islamist captors in a final military assault.

• One American killed in Algeria hostage crisis: report

  One American was killed and two escaped unharmed from a remote Algerian natural gas plant stormed by armed militants, NBC News reported on Friday, noting that the fate of two others was unknown. The five Americans were among dozens of hostages the attackers seized during their assault on the In Amenas plant in eastern Algeria on Wednesday, NBC sai...

• Algerians suspect inside help in hostage raid

  The In Amenas gas plant felt impregnable to many who worked there - walled in, hundreds of miles from anywhere and with the Algerian army constantly patrolling its desert approaches.

• Algeria hostage crisis: US says no to militants' demand to swap prisoners

  The three-day bloody hostage standoff at a natural gas plant in the Sahara took a dramatic turn on Friday as Algeria's state news service reported that nearly 100 of the 132 foreign workers kidnapped by Islamic militants had been freed.

• Algeria hostage crisis: survivors recount terrifying ordeal of desert bloodbath

  Many of them had explosives wrapped around their necks. Others hid, petrified, under their bed, in gaps above ceilings or wherever they could for nearly two days.

• Algeria hostage crisis: Militants offer to trade two Americans for jailed terrorists

  Islamist hostage-takers at a remote Algerian gas field on Friday demanded a prisoner swap and an end to the French military campaign in Mali, a report said, as 30 foreigners were reported still missing in the worst international hostage drama for years.

• Deadly Algeria hostage crisis not over, toll murky

  An Algerian military raid to free hostages from at least 10 countries at a remote Sahara natural gas complex and wipe out their Islamist militant captors unleashed bloody chaos, and the British government said on Friday that the situation was not yet over.