Some 27 members of US Congress signed a letter earlier this week to have Algeria sanctioned over a multi-billion dollar arms deal the North African country reportedly signed with Russia last year. The bipartisan group of Congress members, led by Representative Lisa McClain, sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken to call for Algeria to be sanctioned in accordance with the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act. According to the act, which was signed into law in 2017, the US can sanction individuals or entities engaged in a “significant transaction with a person that …