Armed conflict

Algeria: Government

1991 – 2020 · 36.58° N, 3.50° E

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When
1991 – 2020
Kind
Armed conflict
Deaths
18,913
Coordinates
36.58° N, 3.50° E
Incompatibility
government
Type of conflict
intrastate
Types of conflict
intrastate, internationalized intrastate
Region
Africa
Location
Algeria
Side a
Government of Algeria

Placed at the middle of its 3,669 recorded clashes (UCDP GED).

Algerian Civil War

1992–2002 conflict between the Algerian government and Islamist rebels

The Algerian Civil War, known in Algeria as the Black Decade, was a civil war fought between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups from 11 January 1992 to 8 February 2002. The war began slowly; it initially appeared that the government had succeeded in crushing the Islamist movement, but armed groups emerged to declare violent jihad, and by 1994 violence reached such a level that it appeared the g…

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