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Algerian Security Forces Foil Planned Armed Attack by Separatists

Algerian security forces gather outside a court in the capital Algiers on December 10, 2019. (Getty Images)
Algerian security forces gather outside a court in the capital Algiers on December 10, 2019. (Getty Images)
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Algerian Security Forces Foil Planned Armed Attack by Separatists

Algerian security forces gather outside a court in the capital Algiers on December 10, 2019. (Getty Images)
Algerian security forces gather outside a court in the capital Algiers on December 10, 2019. (Getty Images)

Algerian security forces foiled a plot to carry out an armed attack by separatists aided by "the Zionist entity" (Israel) and a North African country, Ennahar TV said on Wednesday.

Seventeen members of a separatist group authorities have declared a terrorist organization called "MAK" were arrested and documents indicating continuous contact with the "the Zionist entity" organizations and weapons were seized, Ennahar TV added.

In August, the government blamed MAK and another group of being behind the devastating forest fires, which hit several provinces in Algeria, including Tizi Ouzou adding that one of them was backed by Israel.

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Lebanon Urges US Military to Put Pressure on Israel to Withdraw

This handout picture released by the Lebanese presidency shows Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun (C) posing for a picture with outgoing US chairman of ceasefire monitoring committee MG Jasper Jeffers (L) and his successor, newly appointed US MG Michael Leeney (R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut on April 30, 2025. (Photo by Lebanese Presidency / AFP)
This handout picture released by the Lebanese presidency shows Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun (C) posing for a picture with outgoing US chairman of ceasefire monitoring committee MG Jasper Jeffers (L) and his successor, newly appointed US MG Michael Leeney (R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut on April 30, 2025. (Photo by Lebanese Presidency / AFP)
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Lebanon Urges US Military to Put Pressure on Israel to Withdraw

This handout picture released by the Lebanese presidency shows Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun (C) posing for a picture with outgoing US chairman of ceasefire monitoring committee MG Jasper Jeffers (L) and his successor, newly appointed US MG Michael Leeney (R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut on April 30, 2025. (Photo by Lebanese Presidency / AFP)
This handout picture released by the Lebanese presidency shows Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun (C) posing for a picture with outgoing US chairman of ceasefire monitoring committee MG Jasper Jeffers (L) and his successor, newly appointed US MG Michael Leeney (R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut on April 30, 2025. (Photo by Lebanese Presidency / AFP)

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, who met with a US military delegation Wednesday, urged it to pressure Israel to withdraw from areas it still controls in the country and to release Lebanese prisoners.

The delegation was headed by US Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers, the Co-Chairman of the Cessation of Hostilities Implementation Mechanism.

Aoun told the American delegation that the Lebanese army is carrying out its work along the border with Israel, where troops have been confiscating weapons and preventing armed presence.

A statement released by Aoun’s office said that Jeffers, who had held the post since before the Israel-Hezbollah war ended in late November, will be replaced by Maj. Gen. Michael J. Leeney. It added that Leeney also attended Wednesday’s meeting.