The FLN and RND - Algeria's ruling and most-trusted parties - are taking part. Senior officials from both parties were jailed for corruption alongside others in Mr Bouteflika's inner circle.

Algeria will go back to allowing its presidents ... The two largest parties in parliament - the National Liberation Front (FLN) and the National Democratic Rally (RND) - have both campaigned ...

Algeria's bloody eight-year war for independence after more than a century of French rule began on November 1, 1954. Guerrillas from the National Liberation Front (FLN) mounted attacks on ...