Hostage Deaths Mar Algeria Crisis Resolution as Nations Search for Missing

January 19, 2013 from Al Jazeera English

The Algerian government says 32 fighters and 23 captives have been killed during a three-day military operation to end the hostage crisis at a natural gas plant in the Sahara. The provisional death toll was issued by the Algerian interior ministry after special forces crushed the last holdout of the fighters at the In Amenas plant, resulting in 11 captors killed along with seven hostages.

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Algeria

Algeria, officially The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast. Its capital and most populous city is Algiers. Algeria is a semi presidential republic, it consists of 48 provinces and 1541 communes. With a population ex... Explore this topic

Islamic terrorism

Islam Militan ialah pendekatan Islam yang berpendirian bahawa agama Islam dan para pengikutnya harus memperjuangkan taraf politik dan agama mereka secara agresif. Serupa dengan kenyataan bahawa orang militan Muslim hanya merupakan sebahagian para penganut agama Islam, begitu j... Explore this topic

Raid (military)

Raid, also known as depredation, is a military tactic or operational warfare mission which has a specific purpose and is not normally intended to capture and hold terrain, but instead finish with the raiding force quickly retreating to a previous defended position prior to the... Explore this topic

Military of Algeria

The People’s National Army (PNA) is the armed forces of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Algeria has a large and reasonably well-equipped military to counter foreign and domestic threats. The People's National Army include ground forces, an air force, navy, and an ... Explore this topic

Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaida ist ein loses, weltweit operierendes Terrornetzwerk meist sunnitischer dschihadistischer Organisationen, das seit 1993 zahlreiche Terroranschläge in mehreren Staaten verübt hat, und mit zahlreichen weltpolitischen Ereignissen im Zusammenhang steht. Viele der von dem N... Explore this topic

In Aménas

In Amenas is a town and municipality in eastern Algeria, bordering with Libya. The town is located 30 km west of the border. There is no border crossing in the area. The municipality had 7,385 inhabitants in 2008. According to the Algerian novelist Mouloud Mammeri the name is ... Explore this topic

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom and Britain, is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of... Explore this topic

Norway

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Scandinavian unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and the subantarctic Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The lower forty-eight contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are in central North America between Canada... Explore this topic

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up... Explore this topic

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