Dellys should be a tourist hotspot, yet it is isolated as it tries to recover from a brutal civil conflict that engulfed the country in the 1990s.
The Algerian army killed seven Islamist militants during a raid on a secret base near the Algerian capital, a security official said on Monday.
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/ 9 September 2007
A car bomb has killed at least 28 coast guard officers in Algeria just days after a blast ripped through a crowd waiting for the president. The bombings are being seen as a show of strength by the country’s main extremist group, which has gained force after linking up with al-Qaeda. Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni warned terrorists that they have ”one choice: turn themselves in or die”.