The Algerian army fights terrorism

Algeria lived years of black terrorism in the 1990s, resulting in 200,000 deaths. According to official information released by the country’s government, after a clash between extremist terrorist currents and the Algerian army, and since then, Algeria has not recorded any absence of terrorist operations except in one year 2018, despite the approval of national reconciliation in 2005.

A new den of terrorism

Terrorist operations in Algeria do not disappear for several months until they reappear, and the Algerian state lives every year with dark nightmares of terrorist operations that terrorize citizens, and despite the different terrorist organizations that claim responsibility for these operations, the result is the same.

The Algerian state seeks to stop these operations through preemptive military operations, such as the announcement by the Algerian Ministry of Defense of the destruction of the hideout of terrorist groups.

The ministry indicated in its official statement, May 16, 2020, that the cache was in the Tidis region, located in the city of Constantine, located east of the capital, Algiers, and the cache contained two automatic weapons, two bombs, a quantity of ammunition, materials and equipment used in explosive materials, in addition to 21 traditional mines Made.

This operation comes within the strategy of pre-emptive strikes followed by the Algerian army throughout the coming period, and the security forces succeeded in carrying out several operations against terrorist organizations during the last period.

The Algerian army managed to liquidate two terrorist elements in the Dellys region of Boumerdes Province, east of the Algerian capital.

In its statement, the Algerian Ministry of Defense announced that a group of the National Army forces had succeeded in eliminating two terrorist elements east of the capital, May 11, 2020, in addition to destroying 5 hideouts and finding 7 anti-personnel bombs, 3 conventional bombs, and 5 anti-vehicle bombs.

Looking at data from the Algerian Ministry of Defense, it is clear that the recent confrontations with terrorist elements are located in the east of the Algerian capital, which is the same region that witnessed widespread activity by terrorist groups in Algeria during the nineties of the last century.

 The remaining terrorist groups in Algeria

Terrorist activity began to emerge in Algeria through the Armed Islamic Movement, which in turn split into the Islamic Salvation Army AIS and the Armed Islamic Group GIA, and later shortened it to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.

The Algerian army believes that the existing groups are an extension of the terrorists who were active in the country during the 1990s, and who returned to bear arms despite the reconciliation that was signed in 2005.

Successive Algerian successes

As announced by the US State Department in 2017 in a report entitled "Algeria Continues Its Effective Efforts To Prevent Terrorist Activity Within Its Borders", in which Ambassador Nathan Salles presented a position of appreciation to the Algerian state's efforts in combating terrorism, the Algerian army worked to press continuously on Terrorist groups, which forced the latter to operate in disguise in various bunkers.