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Bombing at Algerian Police Academy

A suicide car bomber killed 43 at a police academy in Algeria today (August 19). 
Story at BBC
The following day, there was another fatal attack. 
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Algerian Militants: From Nationalist Insurgents to Global Jihadists

Militant Islamists in Algeria, who prompted a bloody civil war there in the 1990s, have forged new ties with Al-Qaeda and are attempting to transform what had been a nationalist insurgency into part of the global jihad.
Souad Mekhennet, Michael Moss, Eric Schmitt, Elaine Sciolino and Margot Williams, “A Threat Renewed: A Ragtag Insurgency Gains a [...]

Going to School in Algeria

The latest installment in the New York Times’ “Generation Faithful” series features a story about education in Algeria, a country where in recent decades the struggle between fundamentalist (and at times extremist) Islam and more modern and secular emphases has been acute.  Michael Slackman writes, “Now the government is urgently trying to re-engineer Algerian identity, [...]

Muslims in Algeria Protest Government Ban on Veils and Beards in Passport Pictures

Muslim clerics in Algeria, a country where a civil war raged between the government and Islamists in the 1990s, are protesting a government ban on the wearing of veils and beards in passport pictures.
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