Algiers - Algeria's state news agency says one of the militants killed last week in the mountainous region east of the capital was a high ranking member of al-Qaida's North Africa branch.
Source : https://www.emouaten.com/english/Algeria-says-al-Q...
Tuesday's report said authorities identified one of the four militants killed in the Kabylie mountain region, 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of the capital, as Cherif Boualem.
Boualem, 40, joined al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb during the 1990s civil war when some 200,000 people died in a fight between the state and Islamists.
A combination of amnesty and counter-insurgency tactics has largely eliminated al-Qaida in the north of the country.
The terror network, however, remains powerful in the southern desert regions of the country.
http://news.yahoo.com/algeria-says-al-qaida-member-killed-operation-202830185.html;_ylt=ApbXHeOZLp1mX3C83QjOuaTQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBsbzR0bHJyBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMyBHNlYwNzcg--
Boualem, 40, joined al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb during the 1990s civil war when some 200,000 people died in a fight between the state and Islamists.
A combination of amnesty and counter-insurgency tactics has largely eliminated al-Qaida in the north of the country.
The terror network, however, remains powerful in the southern desert regions of the country.
http://news.yahoo.com/algeria-says-al-qaida-member-killed-operation-202830185.html;_ylt=ApbXHeOZLp1mX3C83QjOuaTQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBsbzR0bHJyBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMyBHNlYwNzcg--
Source : https://www.emouaten.com/english/Algeria-says-al-Q...