Algeria


ALGIERS, Algeria - Algerian forces have killed eight al-Qaida insurgents in an attack in a mountainous area considered a bastion for the terror network's North African branch.

PARIS - France is "at war" with al-Qaida and will step up efforts to fight its North African offshoot after it executed a French hostage in the Sahara, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday.

ALGIERS, Algeria - The Algiers prosecutor's office says a former Guantanamo detainee who was transferred to his native Algeria earlier this month has been handed terror-related charges.

PARIS - A 78-year-old ailing French aid worker was executed "in cold blood" by al-Qaida's North African branch three months after his capture, in retaliation for a failed rescue attempt that killed six militants, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday.

WASHINGTON - Two Guantanamo detainees have left captivity, the Defense Department says.
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