PARIS — Algeria’s first post-independence president, Ahmed Ben Bella, who died Wednesday at the age of 95, was a charismatic revolutionary who fought alongside the French during World War II before ...

“The revolution must go on!” cried Strongman Ahmed ben Bella. Countered Colonel Mohand Ou el Hadj: “The time has come to give the right of speech to all revolutionaries.” Thus the first revolt broke ...

After weeks of bluster and sporadic bloodshed, Algeria’s Politburo Chief Ahmed ben Bella last week finally ordered his troops to seize the new nation’s rebellious capital. Within hours, motorized ...

Ahmed Ben Bella (Arabic: أحمد بن بلة), born officially on December 25, 1916 in Maghnia near Tlemcen in Oranie, in the northwest of Algeria (then French departments), and died on April 11, 2012 in ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) – Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria’s first president and a historic leader of its bloody independence struggle from France, died at his family home in Algiers on Wednesday. He was 95.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Ahmed Ben Bella helped lead Algeria's fight for independence from France and after victory became its first president, a figure who symbolised the romance of the national ...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria's first president after the country became independent from France half a century ago, has died following an illness, state media reported on Wednesday. He ...