| 5,461,274 |
36.64115 |
3.88843 |
Algeria |
|
Armed Islamist groups affiliated with the Salafist Group for Call and Combat GSPC conducted a new raid. The group, whose number remains undetermined, threw up a bogus roadblock between Ait Yahia Moussa and Maamar to the south of Tizi Ouzou. They intercepted numerous motorists who took that highway axis and abducted a driver. |
| 5,461,278 |
36.62041 |
3.22248 |
Algeria |
|
The chief of Hassan Hattab's Salafist Group for Call and Combat GSPC for the Larbaa-Meftah zone, in Blida Province, was eliminated on Saturday 7 December evening near the district of Boudjallil, in the municipality of Meftah, by elements of the People's National Army ANP during a violent skirmish that lasted more than a half-hour. |
| 5,461,282 |
36.76639 |
3.47717 |
Algeria |
|
The same day, a policeman was seriously wounded when an armed group fired on his patrol in Boumerdes region. |
| 5,461,286 |
36.535 |
3.8336 |
Algeria |
|
Two suspected Islamic extremists were killed and their weapons seized on Thursday during an army raid near Draa El Mizan in the Berber region of Kabylie. |
| 5,461,290 |
36.06629 |
1.12602 |
Algeria |
|
Four people died and 16 were wounded, some seriously, when a bomb exploded in a busy market in Boukadir, 200 kilometres (124 miles) west of Algiers. The group responsible has not been named, and several are active in the area. |
| 5,461,294 |
34.6667 |
3.25 |
Algeria |
|
Three shepherds abducted by armed aggressors were found by security forces with their throats slit in Sidi Baizid, Djelfa region, some 270 kilometres (170 miles) south of the capital Algiers. The perpetrators are unknown, but the shepherds had been abducted with four other civilians, prompting fears for the safety of members of the remaining group. |
| 5,461,298 |
34.6667 |
3.25 |
Algeria |
|
Thursday 12 December: Six members of the Gacem family killed by an armed group who broke into their home in the Thelidja doyar (Djelfa). Three teenagers and two militia men were among the victims. |
| 5,461,302 |
36.30554 |
2.2248 |
Algeria |
|
Some 200 assailants killed eight soldiers and two armed civilian guards in an ambush in northern Algeria, the largest attack on security forces in several weeks. |
| 5,461,306 |
36.85583 |
3.85667 |
Algeria |
|
Yesterday 18 December , at about 1400 local time , a military attachment fell in an ambush which cost two soldiers from the People's National Army ANP their lives and wounded two others on the road linking Sahel Boubarek with Sidi Daoud. |
| 5,461,310 |
36.38 |
3.9014 |
Algeria |
|
A soldier was killed and one wounded in a clash between an army patrol and armed Islamists in the maquis of Mellah, near Bouira (120 km southeast of Algiers). During the clash, two armed Islamists were killed. Specific group not named. |
