Algerian army troops killed as many as 109 militants1 and arrested 36 others in 2015, according to an annual report released by Defense2 Ministry3 on Sunday.
阿尔及利亚国防部周日公布的年报显示，阿尔及利亚军队2015年共击杀109名、逮捕36名武装分子。
"As part of the fight against terrorism, the National People's Army eliminated 109 terrorists and arrested 36 others," the report said, adding that 18 quintals of explosives, a large quantity of
ammunition4, 182 bombs, and 123 land mines were also
retrieved5.
The anti-terrorism troops also retrieved 105 Kalashnikov submachine guns, 21 automatic pistols, 237 riffles, 23 FMPK guns and 13 rocket launchers, and 5 missiles, the report said.
A violent civil war between security forces and Islamist
insurgents6 hit Algeria in the nineties after the army canceled parliamentary elections in 1992 which the dissolved Islamic
Salvation7 Front (FIS) was
poised8 to win.
In 1992, the army canceled the electoral process that the FIS was poised to win. The North African nation was gone through a decade of civil war between security forces and Islamist insurgents that caused the death of more than 150,000 people, according to official figures.
Once in power in 1999, President Bouteflika launched a national
reconciliation9 program that largely contributed in restoring peace in the country, as terrorists were offered amnesty and fair trials in exchange of laying down their arms.
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