Bombs in Algiers cafés kill civilians and widen the urban war

French prime minister Guy Mollet was confronted by a hostile settler crowd in Algiers while seeking to install General Catroux as minister-resident. The confrontation and his retreat under pressure...

The National Assembly voted special powers for the Mollet government to act in Algeria. The measure enabled emergency policies and facilitated the transfer of broad policing authority to the military....

A decree set out exceptional measures for restoring order, protecting persons and property, and safeguarding Algerian territory. Its neutral administrative language concealed an expansion of...

French authorities executed Ahmed Zabana and Abdelkader Ferradj in Algiers. Their executions became a defining moment for the liberation movement and intensified Algerian opposition to colonial...

Delegates met in the Soummam Valley and adopted a platform that strengthened the revolution’s political and military organisation, established national bodies, and divided the country into wilayas....

French authorities intercepted and forced the landing of a civilian Moroccan aircraft carrying Ahmed Ben Bella, Mohamed Boudiaf, Hocine Aït Ahmed, Mohamed Khider, and Mostefa Lacheraf. The five...

French authorities transferred policing powers over Algiers to General Jacques Massu and the 10th Parachute Division. The military campaign used mass arrests, torture, forced disappearance, and...

The FLN called a general strike that began on 28 January during the United Nations debate on Algeria. Many Algerians closed shops and withdrew from public life despite threats and military coercion....

French paratroopers arrested Larbi Ben M’hidi, a central FLN leader, during the Battle of Algiers. He was interrogated in military custody and later killed extrajudicially. French authorities...

Larbi Ben M’hidi was killed by French forces after being held in custody; the death was disguised as suicide. His killing was part of a wider pattern of torture, disappearance, and extrajudicial...