Algeria Hostages

• 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.

• Algeria militants played shrewd media game

  As wildly contradictory accounts trickled out about a terror attack at an Algerian gas plant, one source of information proved to be the most reliable: announcements by the al-Qaida-linked militants themselves.

• Algeria scouring Sahara for five missing foreigners

  Algerian forces are scouring the Sahara desert for five foreigners missing since Islamist militants attacked a remote natural gas plant, an official said on Tuesday.

• 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.

• Desert siege toll passes 80, bomb squads continue search

  Algerian bomb squads searched a gas refinery laced with mines on Monday, looking for more explosive traps a day after the discovery of more bodies throughout the site raised the toll from the terrorist siege well past 80.

• 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: 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.

• 10 Japanese remain unaccounted for in Algeria: employer

  A Japanese engineering firm said Sunday that 10 of its Japanese and seven of its foreign workers remained unaccounted for at an Algerian gas plant seized by Islamist militants, adding the situation was "grave".

• 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.