Algeria hostage crisis

3 Mar 2013

The death of one of the world’s most wanted jihadists would be a major blow to al-Qaeda in the region and to Islamist rebels already forced to flee towns they had seized in northern Mali by an...

Algeria survivors and dead arrive in Tokyo

26 Jan 2013

Haneda Airport officials used black umbrellas to shield those getting off the government plane from the glare of cameras. Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida stood alongside officials from engineering...

Japan’s Algeria toll hits 10 as survivors head home

24 Jan 2013

Japan’s government on Thursday confirmed a tenth victim of the Algerian hostage crisis, as friends and colleagues of those who perished paid tribute at a makeshift altar.

Seventh Filipino confirmed killed in Algeria

24 Jan 2013

A seventh worker from the Philippines has been confirmed killed in last week’s siege by Islamic militants of a remote natural gas plant in Algeria, the foreign department in Manila said.

Japan confirms two more Algeria dead

23 Jan 2013

Tokyo on Wednesday said it had confirmed the deaths of two more Japanese in last week’s hostage seige at an Algerian gas plant, taking the country’s total toll to nine, with one still unaccounted...

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Survivors of hostage ordeal in Algeria return home to Japan and Philippines

At least seven Japanese and six Filipinos died during the four-day hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant, it emerged yesterday, as survivors returned to Asia recalling their horrific ordeal.

'We were used as human shields,' Filipino survivor says

Six Filipinos were killed in gunfire or explosions during a siege by Islamic militants on a gas plant in Algeria, and four others are missing, the Philippine government said on Monday.

Algeria finds dead Canadian militants as hostage toll rises

Algerian forces have found the bodies of two Canadian Islamist fighters after a bloody siege at a desert gas plant, as the death toll reached at least 80.

ALGERIA HOSTAGE CRISIS

Algeria desert siege death toll may rise as missing sought

Governments scrambled on Sunday to track down missing nationals after the bloody end to a gas plant siege in the Sahara that saw Islamists kill at least 23 foreigners and Algerians, mostly...

HOSTAGE CRISIS

Philippine hostages fly home after Algerian crisis

The Philippines said on Sunday that 52 of its nationals had been accounted for in Algeria following the hostage crisis at a remote gas plant, but it was still not known whether any Filipinos had...