Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Islamic Salvation Front (French: Front Islamique du Salut) is an illegal political party in Algeria. It is an islamist party. It was founded in February 1989 by Abbassi Madani and Ali Belhadj. It won the first round of the December 1991 and in response the Front for National Liberation cancelled the elections. Civil unrest followed and the FIS was banned in March 1992. See also: Armed Islamic Group, List of political parties in Algeria, Politics of Algeria External link FIS in English This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.