Algeria army kills 109 ‘terrorists,’ arrests 36 in 2015: ministry

The Algerian army killed a total of 109
“terrorists,” the term used by the
government for armed Islamist fighters,
and arrested another 36 in 2015, a
defence ministry toll published Monday
said.
Troops also seized explosives, assault
rifles, rocket launchers as well as “a
large amount of all sorts of munitions,
including 182 improvised bombs, 132
mines and five rockets,” the ministry
said in a statement.
The ministry gave no figure for the
military’s losses in the same period.
A dozen soldiers were killed in mid-July
in an ambush laid by jihadists southwest
of Algiers.
Algeria suffered a war in the 1990s
between the government and Islamists
that killed 200,000 people. Armed groups
remain active in the centre and east of
the country.