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Special Forces Of Algeria
The Algerian People's National Armed Forces (ANP) has several special forces regiments as well as several specialized regiments. In addition, the Algerian security forces also have special units and specialized units. History 1963-1990 The setting up and creation of special units It is from 1963 that the Algerian Army, Algerian army started to set up commandos within its ranks, the latter were based in Skikda. Within their garrison there was also the army commando school. Then, following the relocation of the commando school to Biskra in 1971 and the development of military parachuting within the Algerian army in the 1980s, the Algerian Land Forces decided to set up Parachute Commando Regiments, which were originally intended to provide security for oil and gas installations in the south. The first Parachute Regiments appeared in the 1980s, the first being the 4th RAP in Laghouat, the 12th RAP in Biskra and the 18th RAP in Hassi-Messaoud, which later became "Regiments de P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Algeria–Niger border, the southeast by Niger; to Algeria–Western Sahara border, the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to Algeria–Morocco border, the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The capital and List of cities in Algeria, largest city is Algiers, located in the far north on the Mediterranean coast. Inhabited since prehistory, Algeria has been at the crossroads of numerous cultures and civilisations, including the Phoenicians, Numidians, Ancient Rome, Romans, Vandals, and Byzantine Greeks. Its modern identity is rooted in centuries of Arab migrations to the Maghreb, Arab Muslim migration waves since Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, the seventh century and the subsequent Arabization, Arabisation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algerian Air Force
The Algerian Air Force (, ) is the aerial arm of the Algerian People's National Army. History The Algerian Air Force was created to support the fight of the People's National Army against the French occupying forces. It came as part of the decisions of the Soummam congress held on August 20, 1956, which recommended a long-term plan to form a modern army. Before 1962 In 1957, six Algerians were sent for training to the Syrian Arab Air Force flight school at Nayrab near Aleppo. During this period, training also took place with the Egyptian Air Force, Egyptian and Iraqi Air Force, Iraqi air forces, as well as in the USSR and in China. During this period, the French army started the Challe and Morice Line, Morice lines used to isolate the ALN fighters inside the country and to stop supplies coming from Tunisia and Morocco. Then came the idea to train transport and helicopter pilots to ensure supplying the national liberation army, and to prepare the first core of the military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAID (French Police Unit)
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Police Special Operations Group
The Police Special Operations Group (; ) is a police tactical unit of the Algerian Police. History In March 2015, the idea of creating a police task force was born. Moreover, the former Algerian Police Chief Abdelghani Hamel, who had visited the RAID in France earlier, confirmed that the police would need a group like the French RAID. The vast majority of GOSP members come from police task forces such as the BRI (Brigade de recherche et d'intervention) or the BMPJ (Brigade mobile de la Police judiciaire). However, a few members come from Unités de Maintien de l'Ordre (UMO) and other police forces. GOSP police officers are trained in the DSI ( Special Intervention Detachment), which is the Algerian equivalent of the French GIGN. They are trained in urban, semi-urban, closed environment and close combat. Organization Placed under the direct authority of the director general of the Algerian Police, the GOSP is called upon to intervene in the event of serious events, requir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algerian Police
The Directorate General for National Security (DGSN; , ) is the national civil police force of Algeria. It polices Algeria's larger cities and urban areas. The Sûreté is part of the Ministry of Interior (Algeria), Ministry of Interior and is charged with maintaining law and order, protecting life and property, investigating crimes, and apprehending offenders. It also performs other routine police functions, including traffic control. Organization The DGNS is headed by a Director General and in 2007 consisted of a force of 130,000, including specialist operational and investigative branches and supporting services. Directors The judicial police branch is responsible for criminal investigations, working in close coordination with the Office of the Public Prosecutor in the Ministry of Justice. Police are assigned to the capitals of the wilayat are under the nominal control of the individual governors. A special riot police force is equipped with modern riot-control gear. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
116th Operational Maneuvers Regiment
The 116th Operational Maneuvers Regiment (116th RMO) (, ) is a special forces regiment of the Algerian Land Forces. History Indeed, the 116th RMO is a recent regiment because it was created in 2015, a few months after the dissolution of the Groupement d'Intervention Spécial (GIS), this regiment was created to directly replace this unit. Following the dissolution of the GIS, the land forces of the Algerian Army decided to create a new elite unit to replace the GIS. However, the 116th RMO has a different status because it does not depend directly on the Algerian intelligence services, as was the case for the former GIS, but it belongs directly to the command of the land forces. They are under the direct orders of the Chief of Staff of the People's National Army, and their missions are followed up to the highest military level (the army's high command). Moreover, the 116th RMO is the descendant of the GIS, so this regiment has naturally taken over the same missions as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Intervention Regiment (Algeria)
The Special Intervention Regiment, le Régiment spécial d'intervention (RSI ), in Arabic : ( فوج الخاص التدخل ), is a special forces regiment belonging to the Algerian Republican Guard based in Khemisti in the Tipaza Province. History The Special Intervention Regiment was created in May 2015, by the former chief of staff of the Algerian army Ahmed Gaid Salah in person with the commander of the Republican Guard, the major general Ahmed Mouley Melliani. Furthermore, it is the armed wing of the Republican Guard and the RSI is also a parachute unit since these operators are trained at the Special Troops Superior School (ESTS) in Biskra. Missions The RSI has a various mission panel with the hostage rescue to the offensive action in mountain or in the desert, for example. The missions of the RSI are: * Counter-terrorism and hostage rescue * Anti-guerilla warfare * The neutralization of dangerous criminals or terrorists in urban, forest or desert areas. * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Guard (Algeria)
The Algerian Republican Guard (, ), is a military corps of the Military of Algeria, Algerian army. It is under the direct authority of the President of Algeria. The Algerian Republican Guard is composed of about 12,000 troops. It includes a horse mounted cavalry unit. The cavalry detachment finds its roots in the mix of traditions of both the famous Berber people, Berber cavalry, especially the Numidian cavalry and the equally famous Arab cavalry. History The Republican Guard was founded by a group of cavalry units which came from the city of El Eulma located in Setif and which, in 1963, settled in the Colonel Chabou barracks known also as Lido Mouhamadia, in the east of Algiers. This group took over the leaving French army. Since then, the unit has provided honors to the President of Algeria. It then took four years, between 1969 and 1972 to set up the Algerian Republican Guard. Since October 3, 2006, the Republican Guard has been an autonomous military force, with its own comma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algerian Police
The Directorate General for National Security (DGSN; , ) is the national civil police force of Algeria. It polices Algeria's larger cities and urban areas. The Sûreté is part of the Ministry of Interior (Algeria), Ministry of Interior and is charged with maintaining law and order, protecting life and property, investigating crimes, and apprehending offenders. It also performs other routine police functions, including traffic control. Organization The DGNS is headed by a Director General and in 2007 consisted of a force of 130,000, including specialist operational and investigative branches and supporting services. Directors The judicial police branch is responsible for criminal investigations, working in close coordination with the Office of the Public Prosecutor in the Ministry of Justice. Police are assigned to the capitals of the wilayat are under the nominal control of the individual governors. A special riot police force is equipped with modern riot-control gear. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algiers
Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques de l'Algérie (web). and an estimated 3,004,130 residents in 2025 in an area of , Algiers is the largest city in List of cities in Algeria, Algeria, List of coastal settlements of the Mediterranean Sea, the third largest city on the Mediterranean, List of largest cities in the Arab world, sixth in the Arab World, and List of cities in Africa by population, 11th in Africa. Located in the north-central portion of the country, it extends along the Bay of Algiers surrounded by the Mitidja Plain and major mountain ranges. Its favorable location made it the center of Regency of Algiers, Ottoman and French Algeria, French cultural, political, and architectural influences for the region, shaping it to be the diverse met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Research And Intervention Brigade (Algeria)
The Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) is a shock group inspired by the French BIS. The BIS was created in 2005 to replace the Police Special Intervention Unit (UISP) which was disbanded earlier. History The BRI officially replaced the then elite UISP in 2005. However, the BIS is affiliated to the Judicial Police, unlike the UISP, which was directly affiliated to the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN). From 2005, the first training courses were held with the BIS in Paris, which provides "advanced" training for members of this group. In 2007 and 2008, the Intervention Group of the French National Police provides training courses for members of the BRI. In 2008, some 40 police officers went to the United States for training in countering maritime piracy. Missions The missions of the BRI are : * To apprehend groups of criminals engaged in serious acts of banditry... * Release of hostages * Surveillance and tailing in order to search and archive all informati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
104th Operational Maneuvers Regiment
The 104th Operational Maneuvers Regiment (104th RMO; ) is a special forces regiment of the Algerian Land Forces, and is also a parachute regiment. History The 104th Operational Maneuver Regiment was created on November 2, 2005 by a presidential decree in order to support the former Algerian Special Intervention Group, GIS and to participate in anti-terrorist operations in Algeria. Moreover, the Algerian Land Forces wanted to have their own special forces regiment at the time, as they previously had only shock units, the Parachute Commando Regiments (RPC), which are not special forces but specialized units similar to the 75th Ranger Regiment, 75th Rangers regiment of the United States Army, US army. Because of their training with the United States Army Special Forces, Special Forces "green berets", the 104th RMO has adopted an organization that is very much inspired by the latter as well as by NATO-type special forces units. It is considered as the Algerian equivalent of the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
