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| Two Islamists Killed East of Algiers |
| 2013-09-06 |
| [An Nahar] Algerian soldiers killed two armed Islamists on Thursday in a military operation east of the capital, the defense ministry said. The incident occurred in Ain El Hamra, in the corpse-littered Boumerdes region, with a weapons cache recovered in the operation, the ministry added, without elaborating. Violence attributed to Islamists has declined considerably in Algeria in recent years, after a decade of appalling blood-letting during the civil war of the 1990s. But groups affiliated with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb continue to attack security forces in the eastern Kabylie region, in areas around the capital and in the south. |
| Posted by:Fred |