| 5,460,595 |
36.88856 |
4.11984 |
Algeria |
|
Some 100 kilometers to the east near Tigzirt, a communal guard was killed by an armed group |
| 5,460,599 |
35.1939 |
-0.6414 |
Algeria |
|
Three soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected Islamic militants in the desert region of Sidi Belabes. |
| 5,460,603 |
36.72615 |
4.01692 |
Algeria |
|
Two communal guards were killed and three wounded in the attack on their patrol by an Islamist armed group near Tizi Ouzou (110 km east of Algiers). The attack occurred at Boukhalfa. Not specified whether GIA or GSPC. |
| 5,460,607 |
35.40417 |
8.12417 |
Algeria |
|
One member of the security forces was killed and five others seriously injured when a home-made bomb exploded Monday in Morsott, near Tebessa. |
| 5,460,611 |
36.26405 |
1.9679 |
Algeria |
|
4th Feb: 13 members of a militiaman???s family (Serdoun family) killed by an armed group in Sidi Amar (Ann Defla). |
| 5,460,615 |
36.57413 |
2.91214 |
Algeria |
|
The head of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), one of two main extremist groups in Algeria's brutal civil war, has been killed by security forces near the capital Algiers. Zouabri, 31, who had led the GIA since 1996, was killed late Friday along with two other members of the radical group in a house in the town of Boufarik. |
| 5,460,619 |
36.4686 |
2.8289 |
Algeria |
|
9 February: 6 citizen killed (including five belonging to the BoulefaGt family) and one wounded in the Chaabna doyar, near Bougara (Blida) by an armed group. |
| 5,460,622 |
36.7525 |
3.04197 |
Algeria |
|
Algeria's hardline Armed Islamic Group (GIA) has chosen a successor to slain leader Antar Zouabri: Rachid Abou Tourab was named "national emir" of the GIA on February 11, three days after Zouabri was killed by security forces. |
| 5,460,626 |
36.8 |
5.7667 |
Algeria |
|
Three civilian guards were killed in a bomb explosion in northeastern Algeria. The bomb was set off when the guards' truck passed over it near Jijel, some 360 kilometres (220 miles) east of Algiers, early Tuesday. The attack was blamed on the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). |
| 5,460,630 |
34.86801 |
5.73962 |
Algeria |
|
Three Algerian men who had just finished their military service had their throats slit by armed Islamic extremists who forced local villagers to watch the scene. Some 30 armed Islamic radicals barged into a cafe in the village of El Alia, 500 kilometers (310 miles) east of Algiers Friday night, looking for three men whose names they had written on a piece of paper. The perpetrating group is not specified in the report. |
