Wildfires tearing through northern Algeria have now killed at least 65 people, including 28 soldiers deployed to help the firefighters. The blazes in the mountainous Kabylie region are some of the ...

Forest fires are not a new phenomenon for Algeria, and the north-eastern region ... equipped with 1,000-litre buckets and overloaded fire engines tried their best to snuff out the infernos.

In Algeria, twenty-six people have been killed while dozens others injured in forest fires that devastated northern parts of the country. Efforts are afoot to contain the blazes. In Lebanon, 15 ...