Then, following the relocation of the commando school to Biskra in 1971 and the development of military parachuting within the Algerian army in the 1980s, the Algerian Land Forces decided to set up Parachute Commando Regiments, which were originally intended to provide security for oil and gas installations in the south.

At the same time, in the naval forces, more precisely in 1985, the Marine Fusilier Battalions were created and these units also included combat divers whose mission was to carry out offensive actions from the sea and intelligence.

[citation needed] It was also at the end of the 1980s that the Special Intervention Group (GIS) of the Military Security (SM) and then the Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS), which were the intelligence services of the time, as well as the Special Intervention Detachment (DSI) of the Algerian National Gendarmerie were created.

[2] It distinguished itself in particular during the operations in Ain Allah in 1994, in Ouled Allel in 1997, or in the hunt for the group that kidnapped German and Austrian tourists in southern Algeria in 2003.

Later, the GIS would play a decisive role in solving the Tiguentourine hostage crisis in January 2013, and it would also participate in tracking down and destroying the Jound el Khalifa group following the kidnapping and decapitation of Hervé Gourdel in September 2014.

As for the DSI, it also distinguished itself during the 1990s for having participated in complex anti-terrorist operations with other special units of the ground forces.

[3] Its missions are operational reconnaissance and intelligence for the land forces headquarters, similar to the French 13th Parachute Dragon Regiment (13e RDP).

It will become operational from September 1992, and will be installed at the level of the headquarters of the command of the ground forces, in Aïn-Naadja in the suburb of Algiers.

In addition, the Gendarmerie's Rapid Intervention Group (GIR) and men from the Army's Central Security Directorate (DCSA) were also mobilized to supervise and support the sweep operations.

[3] For example, members of the 782nd RFCA neutralized terrorists during a skirmish in the centre of Laghouat without causing collateral casualties or injuries.

[citation needed] However, the territorial organization of CLAS was restructured in March 1993, notably with the creation of "operational sectors" covering several wilayas, each of which worked jointly with the police, the gendarmerie, and army detachments and, a few years later, militias.

In each military region, the elements of the territorial research and investigation centres (CTRI) depended on the DRS, and these worked closely with those of the CLAS.

The parachute commando regiments were therefore moved from their cantonment to the Algiers region, and their prerogatives have changed, their mission is now to carry out special operations, acquire intelligence, and fight terrorism.

[citation needed] Indeed, apart from the DRS's GIS and the gendarmerie's DSI, the Army had no special forces units before the 104th RMO was created in 2005.