Jan 22, 2013
Attackers included two Canadians and a team of explosives experts who were ready to blow up gas plant, says Abdelmalek Sellal. Read Article Algeria PM says militants were well prepared and had help from inside gas plant
Jan 22, 2013
Tony Grisedale's account of survival amid the carnage of the terrorist attack on the Algerian gas plant makes an agonising ordeal seem almost commonplace. Colin Randall pieces together the drama Read Article Algeria hostage recounts survival tactics, as toll rises
Jan 22, 2013
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the Ain Amenas gas plant in Algeria, security concerns are shifting to neighbouring Libya, where porous borders and unreliable armed forces leave the oil and gas industry vulnerable. Read Article Algeria crisis casts shadow over Libyan oil industry
Jan 22, 2013
In 2011, the revolution in Libya rocked world energy markets. Last year, the threat was sanctions on Iran. This year, is it insecurity in the great ungoverned Saharan spaces between Mali, Algeria and Libya? Read Article Guns alone won't defend the Saharan energy workers
Jan 21, 2013
Two of the Al Qaeda-linked captors who took hostages at In Amenas gas plant have been identified as Canadians, according to reports. Read Article Canadians among Algeria hostage takers: report
Jan 21, 2013
Joseph Balmaceda says he is the only survivor out of nine hostages who were aboard a van that exploded, apparently from C-4 explosives that Al Qaeda-linked militants had rigged to the vehicle. Read Article Filipino survivor of Algerian hostage crisis: 'We were human shields'
Jan 21, 2013
Four others are 'still unaccounted for', while 16 Filipinos also caught up in the crisis are confirmed to be alive. Read Article Philippines confirms six Filipinos killed in Algeria gas plant siege
Jan 21, 2013
Picture of savagery of attack emerges, with hostages strapped to explosives and gunned down. Read Article Algeria siege survivors recall brutal ordeal
Jan 21, 2013
Veteran Islamist fighter Mokhtar Belmokhtar claims responsibility on behalf of Al Qaeda for the Algerian hostage crisis, as Algerian bomb squads find more bodies. Read Article Algeria siege was for Al Qaeda, says militant
Jan 20, 2013
Communications minister says toll of 23 foreigners and Algerians from Islamist attack on Saraha desert gas plant may rise. Read Article Algeria minister fears desert siege death toll may rise
