A veteran of the two Israeli-Arab wars of 1967 and 1973, and an officer on the front line in the fight against the Islamist maquis in the 1990s, Chengriha, Algeria’s Chief of Staff since December 2019, has remained a soldier who cultivates his warrior image.
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