In Algeria's deadliest terrorist attack since the 1990s, a suicide bomber Aug. 19 rammed a car full of explosives into a line of applicants waiting to register at a police academy in the town of Les Issers, some 60 km east of Algiers, killing at least 43 people and injuring 45.

No group has yet claimed responsibility, but the country's al-Qaida affiliate has said it was behind a series of bombings in the past two years.

Violence has dramatically increased in Algeria since 2006, when the country's last big extremist group left over from an insurgency in the 1990s, known by the French acronym GSPC, re-branded itself as al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa and joined the terrorist organization.