Guemar is a Saharan oasis in Algeria near the Tunisian border, in the Oued Souf area of the El Oued Province (see map), about 20 km north of El Oued. The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى aṣ-ṣaḥrā´ al-kubra, "The Great Desert" is the world's largest hot Desert and the world's second largest Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's Tunisia (تونس Tūnis officially the Tunisian Republic ( is a country located in North Africa. El Oued ( ولاية الوادي) is a Saharan province of Algeria (n° 39 dominated by Oued Souf. El Oued or Oued Souf is a city in El Oued province, Algeria (الواد in Arabic meaning "the River" It includes a zaouia and a border post; the latter is notable for having been attacked by two Islamists who had fought in Afghanistan, Tayeb Messaoudi and Abderrahmane Dahane, on November 27, 1991, before the beginning of the Algerian Civil War proper. Zaouia (Arabic زاوية "corner" also spelled zawiya, zawiyah, zaouiya, zaouïa zwaya, etc is a Maghrebi Islamism ( Islam + ism; Arabic: al-'islāmiyya) a set of ideologies holding that Islam is not only Afghanistan /æfˈgænɪstæn/ officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ( Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, Aïssa Messaoudi, nom de guerre Tayeb el-Afghani, was an Algerian Islamist. Events 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. The Algerian Civil War was an armed conflict between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups which began in 1991 Guemar Airport is there. Guemar Airport is the airport for El Oued, Algeria. Located near the community of Guemar, it lies about 20 kilometres north of El Oued