El Khabar
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El Khabar (Arabic, The News) is Algeria's largest daily Arabophone newspaper, started after the fall of Algeria's one-party system in 1988, which had until then tightly controlled the press.
The paper is independent and has no party affiliation. The paper's critical reporting has resulted in numerous run-ins with the Algerian government, which on a couple of occasions has sent reporters and editors to jail.[1] El Khabar and its staff was also threatened and attacked by Islamist insurgents during Algeria's long and vicous civil war, which began in 1992.
The paper's style of sensational reporting is comparable to British tabloids like The Sun (newspaper).
El Khabar's web service[2] publishes selected news in Arabic and French, with a minor section in English, though often poorly translated.
