Summary Algerian soldiers killed six armed Islamists in the Kabylie area some 140km east of the capital.
ALGIERS (AFP) - Algerian soldiers on Tuesday killed six armed Islamists in the Kabylie area some 140 kilometres (85 miles) east of the capital, the defence ministry said.
"A unit of the ANP (Algerian army) killed six terrorists in the afternoon during an operation near Akerrou Azazga," a ministry statement said.
It added that the operation was still under way, and that five Kalashnikov-type assault rifles, an automatic pistol, ammunition, explosives and mobile phones were recovered.
Violence attributed to Islamists has declined considerably in recent years.
But groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb continue to attack strategic targets in the eastern Kabylie region, around the capital and in the centre and east of the country.
The army says that more than 100 armed Islamists were killed in 2014.
