Algeria

The government is set to free from prison more than 7,000 Islamist fighters held after the civil war in the 1990s, according to Islamists. The government believes this will allow it to avoid protests that have plagued other regimes.

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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