Algerian troops kill 10 militants in south - state media

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian government forces have killed 10 Islamist militants in an operation in the south of the country, the state news agency APS said, where authorities are concernwed about an influx of arms and fighters from neighbouring Mali and Libya.

Violence and militant attacks are rarer since Algeria ended its decade-long 1990s war with armed Islamists, but the North African branch of al Qaeda branch and other militants are still active, especially in the south where desert borders are porous.