11.   President Liamine Zeroual and three challengers kick off their campaigns on Sunday to lead a country traumatized by an Islamic insurgency.

12.   President renews commitment to ending Islamic insurgency.

13.   Rakhine state is heavily Muslim and is a base for several weak Islamic insurgency groups.

14.   A bomb blast mars the voting, which comes five years after the army canceled similar elections, triggering an Islamic insurgency.

15.   A bomb exploded at a bustling marketplace Friday, killing six people in this North African nation bloodied by an Islamic insurgency.

16.   A car bomb exploded in a key suburb of Algiers, killing three people and wounding others in the latest violence in this nation wracked by an Islamic insurgency.

17.   A nearly decade-long Islamic insurgency has all but halted tourism in this North African country, and there were no reports that foreigners were among the victims.

18.   Algeria has been subjected to violence from an Islamic insurgency for more than three years.

19.   Among the prisoners are hundreds of Muslim militants arrested since the start of a crackdown on fundamentalists that triggered an Islamic insurgency three years ago.

20.   An armed group assassinated a former Algerian interior minister Saturday, the second in nine months to be slain in this North African nation torn by an Islamic insurgency.