An Algerian television network reported on Tuesday that the army has killed the leader of the Jund al-Khilafa jihadist group behind the beheading of a Frenchman in September. Abdelmalek Gouri, whose group has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) organisation that has overrun large parts of Iraq and Syria, was killed late on Monday in Isser, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) east of Algiers, Nahar TV said. The army killed two other members of Jund al-Khilafa in the same operation in the small town in the Kabylie region, the channel said. Earlier it had reported that the men were killed near Sidi Daoud -- 20 kilometres away -- before the defence ministry said the shooting took place in Isser, home to a police training facility.
