An ambush by al-Qaeda-linked fighters in the Sahara desert near Algeria's southern border with Mali has left 11 paramilitary police dead, an Algerian security official has said. According to the Algerian newspaper El Watan, the attack took place at dawn on Wednesday, near the town of Tinzaoutine, about 2,000 km south of the capital Algiers. The fighters used mortars and grenades to strike the police convoy as they passed by on patrol, the daily said. The attack was the deadliest in a...
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