In Algerian mountains, army operation shows persistent militant threat
4 Min Read AIN DEFLA, Algeria (Reuters) - Algerian soldiers fired high-calibre rounds into a scrubby hillside of the Ain Defla mountains last week, part of an operation against the persistent threat of Islamist militants after they launched a fresh attack last month. They stalked in the rain between pine trees along muddy tracks, rifles raised, before dropping into a crouch, many of them too young to remember the 1990s jihadist insurgency that killed 200,000 Algerians. Two decades after that bloodshed ended, the militant threat in Algeria has mostly been contained. However, al Qaeda and other...
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