'The News') is a daily newspaper in Algeria published seven days a week in the tabloid format.

El Khabar′s web service[1] publishes selected news in Arabic and French, with a minor section in English, though often poorly translated.

After the fall of Algeria's one-party system in 1988, which tightly controlled the press, a group of young journalist issued the first edition of El Khabar in Algiers on 1 November 1990.

[3] In August 2003 El Khabar temporarily ceased publication due to its debt to state-run printing presses.

[6] El Khabar staff was also threatened and attacked by Islamist rebels during Algeria's civil war, which began in 1992 and ended in 2002.