The United States has stepped up its assistance to France's mission to help Mali force out an insurgent occupation of the northern region of the African country. The
In spite of British, Japanese, and US officials imploring the Algerian government not to use force to free the roughly 40 employees being held hostage at a gas
In apparent retaliation for Algeria allowing France to use its airspace to attack Islamist militants in Mali, radical Islamist militants have seized control of a gas field in
