Topic: North Africa
Algeria and Mauritania's leaders Tuesday vowed to beef up security in the Sahel region, where Islamist militants are holding a dozen Western hostages.Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Mauritania's Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz made the commitment in a joint statement issued at the end ...
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Algerians to overthrow the government of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and praised Libyan rebels for seizing Tripoli, in a new video.Osama bin Laden's successor Zawahiri urged Libyans to adopt sharia law as they rebuild the country after ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Algiers alerted potential targets to an al Qaeda threat to attack planes chartered by oil companies, the State Department said on Friday.The State Department was responding to a reporter's question posed a day earlier, asking ...
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's North Africa wing has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a military academy in Algeria, accusing it of supporting the regime of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.A statement by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) named Abu ...
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on Sunday claimed responsibility for deadly twin suicide attacks in Algeria, accusing the regime there of supporting Moamer Kadhafi in neighbouring Libya.The brazen suicide blasts, carried out with an explosives packed motorcycle, targeted an Algerian military academy ...
Eighteen people were killed and 26 wounded in a suicide bombing at a military academy in Algeria, the defence ministry said Saturday.The ministry said 16 officers and two civilians were among the dead at the Cherchell military academy, west of Algiers. Twenty ...
Eighteen people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at the Cherchell military academy west of Algiers, a hospital source has said.Eight of those wounded in the attack, the first against the academy since a terror campaign started in ...
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Thirty-six people were killed when two suicide bombers attacked military barracks in the Algerian town of Cherchell on Friday, a security source said.The figure included 12 soldiers, the source said.The bombers detonated themselves at the entrance not long after ...
A former Islamic leader in Algeria refused to claim the remains of his son despite being told that a medical expert confirmed the body's identity, newspaper El-Khabar reported on Friday.Ali Belhadj, who had been deputy leader of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) ...
A suicide bomb attack on a police station in eastern Algeria early Sunday wounded more than 30 people, including two Chinese nationals, the French language daily El Watan reported online.Mohamed Nedir, director of the university hospital in Tizi Ouzou, around 100 kilometres ...
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