algeria

Arab leaders assembled in Cairo in 1968
From left to right: President Houari Boumédiène of Algeria, President Nur al-Din al-Atasi of Syria, President Abdulsalam Aref of Iraq, and President Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt.

A Syrian-Egyptian-Algerian Summit in Cairo in April 1963
From left to right: President Houari Boumédienne of Algeria, President of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) in Syria General Louai al-Atasi, and President Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt.

President Hafez al-Asad attending the Steadfastness and Confrontation Summit in Libya in December 1977
From left to right: Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, Algerian President Houarie Boumedienne, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad

President Assad at the Arab Summit in Baghdad in 1978
From left to right: Iraqi Vice-President Saddam Hussein, President Hafez al-Assad, Algerian Abdul-Aziz Bouteflika, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam

President Hafez al-Assad with Arab leaders in Damascus
From left to right: Hourai Boumedienne of Algeria, President Hafez al-Assad, Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya. Standing behind them is Yasser Arafat, chairman of the PLO.

Arab leaders at the funeral of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia in March 1975
From left to right: An American guest, a Libyan envoy, Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat, Crown Prince Mohammad of Morocco, Khalifa Bin Hamad Al Thani the Emir of Qatar, Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, Algerian President Houari Boumédiène - Syrian President Hafez al-Assad

President Assad with the Presidents of Algeria and Egypt in 1972
From left to right: Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, Algerian President Houari Boumédiène, President Hafez al-Assad

President Shukri al-Quwatli welcoming the Algerian resistance leader Djamila Bouhired in Damascus in early 1957
Djamila Bouhired was famous in Syria for opposing French colonial rule of Algeria, as a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). In April 1957, she was wounded in a shootout and arrested by the French. She was tortured with electricity and then sentenced to death. Her execution was stopped after a media campaign by her French lawyer, and future husband, Jacques Verges, and she was released in 1962.