National Liberation Front (Algeria)
The National Liberation Front (Arabic: جبهة التحرير الوطني Jabhet Al-Taḥrīr Al-Waṭanī; French: Front de Libération Nationale, hence FLN) is a socialist political party in Algeria. It was set up on November 1, 1954 as a merger of other smaller groups, to obtain independence for Algeria from France.
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