He gave up a lucrative contract in France to help create a football team to represent the Algerian resistance in the fight ...

Rachid Mekhloufi, a star of French football who became a symbol of the Algerian fight for independence, has died aged 88, ...

ALGIERS, Nov 9 — Rachid Mekhloufi, a star of French football who became a symbol of the Algerian fight for independence, has ...

Mekhloufi quit Saint-Etienne and the French national team in 1958, missing out on a chance to play at the World Cup, to play ...

Actors perform at a performing event celebrating the 70th anniversary of the launch of its Liberation Revolution against ...

In April 1958, at the height of the Algerian war, Mekhloufi slipped away to help create a team that symbolised the fight for independence. Mekhloufi, who had four France caps, surrendered the ...

France’s more than a century-long colonisation of Algeria and the viciously fought 1954-62 war of independence have ... history of colonisation and the Algerian War in the face, with the aim ...

President Emmanuel Macron on Friday acknowledged that Larbi Ben M'hidi, a key figure in Algeria's War of Independence against ...

members of the pro-independence FLN carried out a series of attacks across the country. This date has come to be known as the beginning of the Algerian War. In France at the time, there was no ...