Algeria

A court sentenced to death Abdelmalek Droukdel, the leader of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and 15 other members of the terror group. Five other leaders were among those sentenced in absentia.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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