A man who was injured in clashes in southern Algeria, site of off-and-on confrontations between Berber and Arab communities, has died of his wounds, the country's national news agency said on Saturday.

The 33-year-old was wounded during clashes between groups of youths that began late on Friday in Berriane, according to the APS agency, and later died in the hospital.

Algeria, Egypt and Italy on Sunday called for a political solution in Libya, on the eve of U.N.-mediated talks aimed at forming a unity government in the war-torn country.

Libya plunged into chaos after a 2011 NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed veteran strongman Moammar Gadhafi, with heavily armed former rebels carving out their own fiefdoms across the country.

France on Friday deported the Algerian father of an Islamist who gunned down French soldiers and Jewish children in a 2012 killing spree, police sources said.

The father of Mohamed Merah, who shot dead three soldiers before gunning down three students and a teacher at a Jewish school, had been in the country illegally for months after authorities refused to renew his residency permit in March.

Algeria's defense ministry said on Friday a military sweep in an area where 25 Islamist gunmen were killed this week has uncovered two major arms caches.

Since Tuesday, the army has been searching the mountainous Ferkioua area of Bouira province, east of Algiers.

Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said Thursday that "only remnants of terrorism" remain in Algeria, where authorities say 25 Islamist militants were killed in an army sweep this week.

Special forces were mobilized for the sweep, the minister said, quoted by national news agency APS. "Only remnants of terrorism are left in Algeria."

Four jihadists were killed Thursday in clashes with the Tunisian army in a mountainous region near the border with Algeria, the defense ministry said.

A statement said troops clashed with jihadists at dawn on Mount Sammama near Mount Chaambi, where the army has been battling militants since 2012.

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Thursday replaced the interior, energy and finance ministers in a surprise cabinet reshuffle.

Nourredine Bedoui, who was minister of vocational training, was named to the interior ministry in place of Tayeb Belaiz, in a presidential decree carried by the national news agency APS.

Mali's main Tuareg-led rebel alliance initialed a peace agreement with the government Thursday but demanded changes before signing a deal to end decades of conflict in the west African nation.

The international community is trying to persuade at least some Mali rebels to sign an accord in Bamako on Friday following months of U.N.-backed negotiations and numerous ceasefire violations.

Soldiers killed two armed Islamists during an ambush Tuesday southwest of Algeria's capital, the government said, as media reported that four security personnel were slain in the east.

"An army detachment killed two terrorists today at 3:00 pm, following an ambush carried out near the locality of Amrouna, south of Ain Defla," said the defense ministry.

France and Algeria on Tuesday urged Mali's warring factions to sign a peace deal between the Bamako government and northern rebel groups this week.

"We call in the clearest terms for the signing of this text, in the interest of peace in Mali and the region," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said during a press conference with his counterpart Ramtane Lamamra in Algiers.