Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is an off-shoot of the country’s decade long civil war that pitched Islamist forces against the country’s army. The last significant attack in Algeria was in 2013 when Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Islamist leader masterminded an assault on an Algerian gas plant that left 37 foreign hostages dead. The leader and co-founder of the FIS party sentenced him to 12 years in jail on charges of undermining state's security. Exilé au Qatar, Abbassi Madani, leader du Front islamique du salut (FIS) a été enterré accompagné d'une foule de partisans à Alger. Il a fait aussi partie de la génération qui avait combattu pour la guerre d'indépendance.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 01, 2019 12:45 UTC