Algeria has issued arrest warrants for 15 suspects in the kidnapping and beheading of French tourist Hervé Gourdel on terrorism, kidnapping and murder charges. The Algerian army is searching for Gourdel's body in the Djurdjura mountains.
Top of the wanted list is Abdelmalik Gouri, the 37-year-old leader of Jund al-Khilafa (Soldiers of the Caliphate), the group that broke away from Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb to swear allegiance to the Islamic State armed group fighting in Iraq and Syria.
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