Tens of thousands of Algerians are living in France without legal permission. But the Algiers government is refusing to take back even dangerous criminals. The dispute threatens to upend a historic migration pact.

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron issued a public hands-off warning to his ministers after they attempted to turn up the dial with Algeria amid the two countries’ increasingly bitter diplomatic spat. “We need to engage in a rigorous and respectful dialogue,” Macron said in an interview with French daily Le Figaro published on Tuesday.

With the downfall of the Assad regime, Algeria lost a strong ally in the Arab region. Algiers is now seeking to establish relations with the new leadership in Damascus, hoping to maintain its old alliance despite the change of regime.

Relations between France and Algeria have hit a new low with Algiers blaming the rise of the French far right for a more combative approach from Paris towards its former colony. Relations soured further in November when Algeria arrested French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal on national security charges after he told a French far-right media outlet that Morocco's territory was truncated in favour of Algeria during French colonial rule.

When, once again, innocent French people were attacked by yet another knife-wielding North African, the country’s shock and sorrow soon gave way to anger at the suspect’s native country, Algeria. France was still reeling from the killing spree of Brahim Abdessemed in the Alsatian town of Mulhouse on Feb.

Some experts argue that France's growing war of words with its former colony stems partly from the government's desire to appease the far right on migration.

The IRGC, long the spearhead of Tehran’s expansionist ambitions and a state-within-a-state that thrives on destabilization, now finds in Algeria a new theater for its operations.

PARIS — Algeria clapped back at France on Wednesday amid a deepening row between the two countries, accusing Paris of following “orders from the far right” by clamping down on visas granted to Algerians.

Algeria, which has always been true to the brotherly Palestinian people since its independence, cannot bless the outcomes and consensus reached in black rooms regarding the future of the Palestinian cause.

Algeria reaffirms its ‘absolute rejection of being addressed with ultimatums, warnings or threats,’ says Foreign Ministry - Anadolu Ajansı

Editorial - In the 8 o'clock news on Monday 3 March 2025, France 2 (a station of the French national public television broadcaster France TV) aired a report entitled "Algiers wants to silence its opponents.

Diplomatic petulance is a fitting description of the decision by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his Tunisian counterpart Kais Saied to shun the emergency Arab Summit in Cairo on March 4,