Islamic State said on Tuesday that it was behind Sunday's attack on an Algerian military barracks near the country's border with Mali that killed one soldier.
The militant group sent the bomber in a vehicle rigged with explosives, but a sentry stopped him before he could enter the compound and the blast killed both men, according to a Defence Ministry statement. The group's Algerian leader is a 47-year-old militant known as Abu Walid el-Sahrawi.
"The martyred brother Omar al-Ansari ... entered the base and exploded his car against them," the group said in a statement.