Updated at 6:41 p.m. ET. An American in the Algerian hostage standoff in the Algerian desert has been killed, CBS News has learned. Frederick Buttaccio from Katy, Texas near Houston, was an ...

Algeria has been receiving increasing numbers of migrants on its southern border, deep into the Saharan desert. These people risk their lives to travel, mostly on foot, towards Algiers in the ...

Updated 6:52 p.m. ET. ALGIERS, Algeria Algerian helicopters and special forces stormed a gas plant in the stony plains of the Sahara on Thursday to wipe out Islamist militants and free hostages ...

Since terrorists seized an oil and gas site in the Algerian desert in January, foreign companies operating in the country have been worried about keeping their personnel safe. And in Algeria, that ...