Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this July 27, 2007 file photo, Algerian singer Idir performs during the 32nd edition of the Paleo Festival in Nyon, ...

Algerian Berbers marked their New Year as a public holiday Friday with feasts, dancing and horse parades, a first for the North Africa region where indigenous peoples have long suffered ...

Twenty-eight Algerian demonstrators were handed one-year jail sentences Tuesday for "undermining national unity" by bearing the Berber minority's flag during anti-regime protests, a prisoners' rights ...

Weary from years of kidnappings, the inhabitants of Algeria's rugged Kabylie mountains are finally turning against the al Qaeda fighters in their midst and helping security forces hunt them down. And ...

PARIS – Idir, an Algerian singer who gave voice to the Berber and Kabyle cultures, has died in Paris. He was 70. Saturday's death of the singer, whose real name was Hamid Cheriet, was confirmed on a ...

PARIS – Idir, an Algerian singer who gave voice to the Berber and Kabyle cultures, has died in Paris. He was 70. Saturday's death of the singer, whose real name was Hamid Cheriet, was confirmed on a ...

A memorial outside Patriot Oaks Academy continues to grow after a 12-year-old was killed in a crash outside the school. Community gathers at Patriot Oaks Academy to remember 12-year-old student killed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PARIS (AP) — Idir, an Algerian singer who ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PARIS (AP) — Idir, an Algerian singer who ...

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