Algerian army ambushes militants, two killed east of capital
 

Algeria's military ambushed militants on Tuesday, killing two fighters in an eastern region near where al Qaeda's **rth Africa branch claimed an attack on an army patrol last month, the defense ministry said. Troops attacked the militants in Kaddara in Boumerdes province about 50 km (31 miles) east of the capital Algiers early Tuesday morning, according to the ministry statement on APS state news agency. The eastern mountains were once the stronghold for Islamist militants. Abdelmalek Droukdel, the Algerian university student turned leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is believed to be hiding in the region.

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