Possible Clues:

• Algerian port of 600,000
• City captured by Allied forces, November 1942
• Algeria's Gulf of ___
• Setting of 'The Plague'
• City WSW of Algiers
• Port captured by Allied forces in 1942
• Allied invasion site in W.W. II
• Ring smuggled in Algerian port
• City captured by the Allies during Operation Torch, 1942
• Port of a 1942 Allies landing