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Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 1999 to Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Nine members of an Islamic extremist group from Algeria held responsible for a massacre of 29 people this month have been arrested by Moroccan military security forces, a reliable source told AFP on August 25. The Moroccan authorities denied the report on the next day.
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
At least 29 people have been killed in the Bechar region of western Algeria, in the worst attack on civilians since the election of President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika four months ago. In a 15 August statement, security officials blamed Islamist militants for the killings in Beni Ounif, saying that the...
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Despite President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s significant strides in pursuing reconciliation with Islamist opponents there has been a recent spate of terrorist attacks across Algeria after a relative lull. The GIA, Algeria’s most radical guerrilla faction, has dismissed a peace deal between the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is winning international support for his swift moves to end the North African nation’s civil strife, but big obstacles remain for Western investment beyond the oil and gas sector, experts say. Elected in April amid charges of vote fraud, Bouteflika has...
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
Algerian prisons began setting free thousands of militants on July 5 under a mass Independence Day pardon issued by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in his drive to end seven years of bloodshed. The prisoner releases were the first tangible fruit of a deal last month between the government and the...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Following seven years of unremitting bloodshed and tens of thousands of lives lost, Algeria’s bloody civil struggle may finally be drawing to a close as the president and the main Islamist opposition group agree to a peace. Whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the Islamic Salvation Front’s (...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 1999 to Wednesday, June 9, 1999
A dozen Moroccan and Algerian Muslim fundamentalist prisoners called on May 27 on the Socialist-led government of Morocco for an amnesty. Among them are three members of Algeria’s banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), spending up to 14 years in jail for their involvement in arms trafficking to...
Date of source: Saturday, January 23, 1999
A new book appeared in the French markets. It is dealing with terrorism and connecting it with the Islamic terrorism. The importance of this book is due to the importance of its author who is the head of the international observatory of terrorism.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.