| 5,461,113 |
36.8792 |
6.9067 |
Algeria |
|
An army patrol fell into the ambush Sunday between the towns of Bissi and Bountouz in the Skikda region, 510 kilometers (330 miles) east of Algiers, where the extremists had planted several bombs. Three soldiers killed. No details on perpetrating group. |
| 5,461,117 |
36.7525 |
3.04197 |
Algeria |
|
Policemen on Tuesday gunned down three extremists who had come to plant a very powerful bomb in the centre of the capital. Two of the three were later identified as members of a unit belonging to the extremist Salafist Group for Call and Combat, known as the GSPC. |
| 5,461,121 |
36.71183 |
4.04591 |
Algeria |
|
An Algerian soldier was killed and two others wounded Tuesday when a bomb exploded near their army vehicle on patrol in a remote part of northeastern Algeria. No details of exact location or perpetrating group reported; Islamist extremists named. |
| 5,461,125 |
36.9 |
7.76667 |
Algeria |
|
At Houara, near Annaba, soldiers killed six members of the other main movement at war with the authorities, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). |
| 5,461,129 |
35.3944 |
0.1397 |
Algeria |
|
The army killed 13 fighters and recovered weapons in the Maarif mountains in the Mascara region, where the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) operates. |
| 5,461,133 |
36.46214 |
7.42608 |
Algeria |
|
The army killed three GIA members in the Guelma highland region. |
| 5,461,137 |
36.365 |
6.6147 |
Algeria |
|
Algerian security forces on Sunday killed two suspected leaders of the feared Armed Islamic Group (GIA). Moussa Sellini, 30, and Mohamed Boudraa, 56, were killed in Sellini's house in the outskirts of Constantine. |
| 5,461,141 |
36.8792 |
6.9067 |
Algeria |
|
Six militants were killed on Friday 20 September by the forces of the People's National Army ANP which, for the past two weeks, have been conducting search operations in the mountains surrounding Skikda, presumed to belong to Hassan Hattab's Salafi Group for Call and Combat GSPC. |
| 5,461,145 |
36.95 |
7.5 |
Algeria |
|
In the district of Ouled Attia, a citizen lost an arm after touching a bottle bomb that had been thrown on the beach. |
| 5,461,149 |
36.98974 |
6.46049 |
Algeria |
|
In Zitouna, militants lying in ambush fired bullets at an Express vehicle carrying only the driver who miraculously emerged alive but with three bullets in his thorax. |
