ABSTRACT
The terrorist threat in Algeria is not a new phenomenon. The emergence of Islamic fundamentalism and armed jihadism is directly linked to the colonial and post-colonial history of this, the largest country in Africa. The main challenge for the Algerian authorities in the context of regional but also global security is the ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), which had its territorial bridgeheads until 2020 in Iraq and Syria, but also in Libya. The ISIS effectively controlled the city of Sirte until 2018. The Algerian civil war of the 1990s prompted the Algerian authorities to develop a comprehensive law to combat terrorism. Harmonisation of international action to counter terrorist financing is an important element of Algerian counter-terrorism policy. Algeria signed the United Nations Convention against the Financing of Terrorism on January 18, 2000, and ratified it, with reservations, by Presidential Decree No 2000-445 of December 23, 2000.
