| 5,469,919 |
36.7525 |
3.04197 |
Algeria |
|
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been in a French hospital since suffering a stroke in April, left France on Tuesday to return to Algeria,Bouteflika, 76, has ruled over the North African oil and gas producer for more than a decade and has not said if he plans to run for another term in a presidential election in April 2014. |
| 5,469,924 |
36.14766 |
3.69123 |
Algeria |
|
Algerian authorities say four armed Islamic extremists have been killed in a shootout with soldiers southeast of the capital. Fighting occurred overnight in Sour El Ghozlane, 120 kilometers (70 miles) from Algiers. Two senior AQIM members were among the dead, Bourihane Rabah, alias Ayad Abou Abderrahmane, and Lafi Lakhdar, alias Aboulwahid Touhami. |
| 5,469,928 |
33.35608 |
6.86319 |
Algeria |
|
Last Friday army troops spotted a four-wheel drive vehicle coming from Libya, Echorouk reported. Army troops destroyed the SUV when it reached the province of El Oued, 800 kilometres south-east of Algiers. This led to the death of the three gunmen aboard.The car was loaded with Russian-made automatic weapons, anti-aircraft missiles, RPGs, and bullet-proof jackets. |
| 5,469,931 |
33.35608 |
6.86319 |
Algeria |
|
In El Oued, coach drivers have staged a strike to protest the "discriminatory" rationing of fuel. |
| 5,469,935 |
36.075 |
4.775 |
Algeria |
|
In the west of Bordj Bou Arreridj a suspected terrorist was killed Monday evening in an army search operation. |
| 5,469,939 |
36.53444 |
3.68278 |
Algeria |
|
Two forest rangers were killed and two others wounded this Tuesday, 23 July, in an explosion of a homemade bomb in Sellala, on the heights of the municipality of Kadiria. |
| 5,469,943 |
23.30183 |
-1.2117 |
Algeria |
|
The joint security forces, supported by special units of the People's National Army,on 27 May killed eight alleged members of the Movement of Monotheism and Jihad [in West Africa (MUJAO) in Tanezrouft Desert in the border region between northern Mali and Algeria about 650 km south of Bordj Bedji Mokhtar border region. |
| 5,469,947 |
36.73054 |
4.43646 |
Algeria |
|
A captain was shot dead late on Monday at Yakourene in Kabylie by gunmen as he was returning to bar-racks 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Tizi Ouzou, east of Algiers, |
| 5,469,951 |
34.83691 |
5.72083 |
Algeria |
|
Three soldiers were killed by an explosion on Sunday night at Meziraa in the southern province of Biskra. |
| 5,469,954 |
26.50483 |
8.48121 |
Algeria |
|
Arms and ammunitions had been seized on Thursday 2,300 kilometres south of Algiers, not far from the Libyan border. A heavy machinegun, two rifles, a signficant quantity of ammunition and a number RPG-7 rockets were found in two 4X4 vehicles. |
