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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.

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.

ALGIERS, Algeria - Suspected Islamic militants killed 11 Algerian gendarmes in a mortar and grenade attack near the North African nation's border with Mali on Wednesday, a security official said.

PARIS - Gen. Marcel Bigeard, who led France's elite parachute forces in colonial wars in independence-seeking Indochina and Algeria after serving in the French Resistance in World War II, has died at age 94.

ALGIERS, Algeria - Algeria's Interior Ministry says a leader of al-Qaida's North Africa offshoot has turned himself in to authorities.
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