Algerian Military

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  2 Killed As Algeria Military Plane Crashes: Authorities

  An Algerian military plane crashed during a training flight, killing two people on board, the defence ministry said on Thursday.

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  Algeria Plane Crash Updates: Death Toll In Algerian Military Plane Crash Rises To 257

  An Algerian military plane crashed near Boufarik airport near the capital Algiers, killing several people, local media and a witness said.The plane was carrying more than 100 military personnel, a local TV station said.

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  Algerian Military Plane Crashes Near Boufarik Airport, 257 Killed

  257 people died after an Algerian military plane carrying army personnel crashed near an airbase outside the capital Algiers, reported Algerian State TV. The plane came down near Boufarif airport shortly after taking off.

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  Mali Hotel Attack Claimed by Fighters Linked to Mokhtar Belmokhtar

  A deadly hostage drama at a Mali hotel in which 13 people died -- including five UN workers -- was claimed today by fighters linked to the notorious one-eyed Algerian jihadi leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar.

• Algeria Army Destroys Kidnap Camp, Kills Four Militants

  Four gunmen were killed after the Algerian army raided the suspected hideout of the kidnappers of Herve Gourdel, the French tourist beheaded by jihadists last month, the defence ministry said on Friday.

• France Opens Door to Possible Syria Strikes After Tourist Killed

  France on Thursday opened the door to possibly joining air strikes in Syria just hours after an Algerian Islamist group beheaded a French tourist in retaliation for Paris' military action against Islamic State militants in Iraq.

• Black box found as Algeria seeks cause of deadly plane crash

  Algerian search teams recovered one of the black box flight recorders of a military plane on Wednesday in their quest for clues to why it crashed killing all but one of 78 people on board.

• Algerian military plane crashes into mountain, 77 killed

  A military transport plane carrying members of the Algerian armed forces and their relatives crashed into a mountain on Tuesday, killing 77 people, the worst air disaster in the North African country in a decade.

• Al Qaeda commander behind Algeria hostage crisis killed: Chad army

  Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda commander who masterminded a bloody hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant in January, Chad's military said on Saturday.

• Algeria hostage crisis ends in bloodbath

  Algerian troops stormed a remote gas plant Saturday to end a hostage crisis that killed 23 foreigners and Algerians, seven of them executed by their Islamist captors in a final military assault.

• One American killed in Algeria hostage crisis: report

  One American was killed and two escaped unharmed from a remote Algerian natural gas plant stormed by armed militants, NBC News reported on Friday, noting that the fate of two others was unknown. The five Americans were among dozens of hostages the attackers seized during their assault on the In Amenas plant in eastern Algeria on Wednesday, NBC sai...

• Algeria hostage crisis: Militants offer to trade two Americans for jailed terrorists

  Islamist hostage-takers at a remote Algerian gas field on Friday demanded a prisoner swap and an end to the French military campaign in Mali, a report said, as 30 foreigners were reported still missing in the worst international hostage drama for years.

• Deadly Algeria hostage crisis not over, toll murky

  An Algerian military raid to free hostages from at least 10 countries at a remote Sahara natural gas complex and wipe out their Islamist militant captors unleashed bloody chaos, and the British government said on Friday that the situation was not yet over.

• Algerian helicopters kill 35 hostages say militants

  Islamic militants have told a Mauritanian news outlet that that 35 hostages were killed but seven are still alive after Algerian military helicopters strafed a gas complex deep in the Sahara.