The army forces killed yesterday 10 terrorists and arrested another on the mountainous area near MÂ’ziraa, Biskra, and ThÂ’niat Elabed, Batna, in an armed fighting. The clash took place when the army forces were carrying out a combing operation, started a few days ago just after a terrorist attack in MÂ’shunesh area. The raking operation was supervised by the ground forcesÂ’ General Commander, General Tafer, and the Commander of military zone IV, Bourefla Sherif Abderrazak, in addition to a number of military commanders from military zones IV and V. All human and logistic means were provided for the operation carried out to put terrorist groups out of harm. The target is tens of groups, including foreign terrorist group members from Sahel African countries belonging to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), sources told El Khabar. According to the same sources, the terrorists were besieged during the operation that ended by the killing of seven terrorists, on the mountains located near MÂ’ziraa commune where another was arrested. The army forces, which started the operation from Batna, killed three terrorists in ThÂ’niat Elabed at an armed fighting with the terrorist groups that tried to leave the area. Army forces are carrying on their manhunt against terrorists there.
The combing operation comes less than a week after three soldiers and two communal guards were killed in an ambush tended in the fifth military zone, in M’shunesh, located between Batna and Biskra. A number of terrorists have been killed and others arrested lately, and some hiding places have been destroyed in the raking operations in Bouira, Tizi-Ouzou, Jijel and Boumerdés, earlier this month. Several terrorist-supporting nets have been dismantled and firearms and war material discovered, then. Army forces have been besieging terrorist groups for more than a week, in El Aures mountains situated between Biskra and Batna, and others in the mountains located between Khenchela and Tebessa.