How did Algeria win its civil war?

200,000 people died in the war known as the 'Black Decade,' which many see as a foreshadowing of the turmoil to come in other Muslim countries. But how did the Algerian government ultimately defeat the FIS? And why didn't neighboring leaders like Gaddafi in Libya or Ben Ali in Tunisia manage to prevent similar challenges in their own countries?
 
200,000 people died in the war known as the 'Black Decade,' which many see as a foreshadowing of the turmoil to come in other Muslim countries. But how did the Algerian government ultimately defeat the FIS? And why didn't neighboring leaders like Gaddafi in Libya or Ben Ali in Tunisia manage to prevent similar challenges in their own countries?
Algerian government had the biggest and strongest armed force and has the support of the west especially france.
 
200,000 people died in the war known as the 'Black Decade,' which many see as a foreshadowing of the turmoil to come in other Muslim countries. But how did the Algerian government ultimately defeat the FIS? And why didn't neighboring leaders like Gaddafi in Libya or Ben Ali in Tunisia manage to prevent similar challenges in their own countries?
The FIS was invented by the Algerian Junta after the moderate Islamic party won the first democratic elections in order to smear them, they literally almost lost a civil war to their own creation
 
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